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AN ORIGINAL AND COMPREHENSIVE METHOD 
OF 

Intra-Uterine Medication 

For the Treatment of the 
Various Forms of 

UTERINE DISEASES 

Presenting a course which, in the author's experience of nearly fifty years, 

has proven successful far beyond that claimed for 

any other method. 

INCLUDING 

THE DISEASE AND CRIME PRODUCING EFFECT 
OF SODIUM CHLORID. 

THE DISEASE PRODUCING EFFECT OF ACIDOSIS AND 
EXTREME ALKALINITY OF THE SECRETIONS. 

AN ORIGINAL DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM OF DETERMINING 

DISEASES BY PATHOLOGICAL MARKING FROM THE 

EFFECT OF STIMULANT FOODS. 



BY 

CHARLES WOODWARD, M. D. 

Post Graduate Instructor of Gynecology; Member of the Illinois State 

Eclectic Medical Society; National Eclectic Association; American 

Association of Orificial Surgeons; The Central Society of 

Physical Therapeutists; The American Association 

for Medico-Physical Research. 

SECOND EDITION 

First Revision 

2029 BISSELL ST., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 






Copyrighted by 
CHAS. WOODWARD. M. D. 
Chicago, 111. . 



JUL 20 '2! 

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This Work is Offered as the Most 
Humane and Efficient Method fbr 
Controlling Those Neglected Gyne- 
cologic Conditions of Women. 



FOREWORD ON UTERINE TREATMENT. 

The ocurrence of uterine colic, and a lack of knowledge of 
causes which produce it, have prevented women from receiving 
the most inestimable treatment known. "Intra-uterine Medica- 
tion," first published during 1904, presented the causes which in- 
duce uterine colic and offered a method that, when closely 
observed, always prevents its occurrence. 

The "intra-uterine" method offers a specific treatment for the 
menopause, its hemorrhages and infection ; endometritis and 
ulcerative endometrium, cervicitis, retroversion, prolapsus-utero, 
procidentia, all forms of intra-utero irritation and infection. 

It is a great help in obstetrical emergencies and thus over- 
comes one's anxiety. It is the only reliable treatment for the re- 
moval of a retained dead foetus. Those who become familiar with 
this method will learn that they are fully equiped to manage suc- 
cessfully, accidental, justifiable and spontaneous abortions. Many 
women seventy-five and eighty years of age acquire catarrhal 
endometritis, accompanied with infection, which is easily con- 
trolled by washing out the uterus. 

Those who do not practice intra-uterine medication are com- 
petitively handicapped ; besides their financially better patients will 
go to neighboring practitioners. 



Intra-Uterine Medication 

PART I 



A PROBLEM SOLVED. 

The medical profession for a decade, has progressed in sur- 
gery and retrograded in diagnostic and therapeutic ability. It has 
neglected non-surgical gynecology and overlooked the study of 
the waste of the great sympathetic nerve, supporting an untenable 
propaganda, that all, diseases are caused by germs and failing to 
study the effect of nourishment on the system, as a large factor 
of disease. The psychologic moment has long since arrived, for 
physicians to restore the retrograde branches; for a study to be 
made of the waste of the sympathetic nerve and the effects of 
nourishment noted ; and a mechanical and therapeutic method 
discovered, capable of controlling every gynecological disease. 
Such are some of the necessities that originated the resourceful, 
painless and humane Intrauterine Medication. 

The fear and dread of submitting to pelvic and uterine opera- 
tions have allowed inflammations to produce hundreds of unde- 
termined reflex uterine irritations, insanity, sudden deaths from 
infection, and the development of organic diseases. What further 
proof than the following questions is required to show that the 
uterus holds many secret problems that need to be solved? 

What causes uterine colics? 

What causes insanity during the Menopause? 

What causes cancer of the uterus? 

What causes spontaneous abortion? 

What are the different effects of a dry or secreting inflamma- 
tion on the nervous system? 

How can cancer of the uterus be overcome without an 
operation? 

How can retroversion of the uterus be restored 

Why will the uterus tolerate an alkaline better than an acid 
solution ? 



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For centuries the method of washing out the uterus was 
known as the elevated continuous-stream irrigation. It was be- 
lieved that in order to free or empty the cavity of the uterus it 
was necessary to introduce several gallons of medicated solutions 
from an elevated reservoir. An unnecessary force was introduced 
into the uterine cavity, which produced an irritation and caused 
uterine colic. Again, it was believed that in order to destroy 
germs and control infection in the uterus it was necessary to 
introduce antiseptics strong enough to destroy some of the endo- 
metrium, which in turn endangered life. 

The author discovered that the decomposed and organic 
poisons retained in the cavity of the uterus are alkaline and oxi- 
dizable, and that owing to the facility with which hydrogen per- 
oxid gives up one of its acid atoms of oxygen, it acts as a strong 
oxidizing antiseptic agent. Clinical observation of long experience 
has proved conclusively that it is unnecessary to use in the uterus 
strong, destructive alkaline or acid antiseptics ; also found that 
the uterine cavity can be cleansed and made aseptic with six 
ounces of a mild alkaline antiseptic, alternated with a 20 to 50 
per cent solution of peroxid of hydrogen. 

During an experience of thirty-five years I never found it ex- 
pedient to dilate the cervical canal more than a quarter of an 
inch, except in accidental and spontaneous abortions, because my 
recurrent douche is only three-sixteenths of an inch in diameter. 
Nor is it necessary to grasp or hold the uterus while obtaining 
sufficient dilatation of the cervix to introduce the small, recur- 
rent douche. 

Summary. — The method of passing the continuous elevated, 
uncontrollable stream of liquids into the cavity of the uetrus has 
been proved impracticable by its certainty to produce irritation 
and uterine colic. 

The problem is further solved by thirty-five years of experi- 
ence with the Intrauterine method of introducing liquids into 
the uterus, controllable by the operators thumb, with a half- 
ounce syringe, through a recurrent douche, which does not ex- 
pand the uterine cavity and has no tendency to cause irritation 
or colic. 



DIRECTIONS FOR WASHING OUT THE UTERUS. 

In washing out the uterus a few conditions should be con- 
sidered. When the uterus is nearly normal, especially in a young 
woman, the introduction of medicated solutions may act more 
or less as an irritant. For instance, in cervicitis and in dysmen- 
orrhea, complicated with neurosis or spinal irritation, the body of 
the uterus which is in a normal expansio-contractile state may 
become convulsive from, the slightest irritants. 

Medicated solutions thrown into a gravid uterus are likely 
to cause contractions and severe pain, but if the ovum or mem- 
branes have been ruptured and the contents not expelled in twenty- 
four hours the solutions then will not cause contraction. On the 
other hand, whenever there is subinvolution, corporeal endome- 
tritis, or chronic inflammation, the uterus will scarcely respond, 
even to a destructive irritant. This is because the uterus and 
pelvic tissues which are inflamed, become edematous with serous 
fluids, which pervert the circulation and cause muscular atony. 
In practising the interrupted stream method, with a syringe, the 
capacity of which is less than that of the uterus, the physician 
is enabled to control with his thumb the force and quantity of 
liquid introduced, introducing a quantity, short of inducing ex- 
pansion, without the least danger of producing uterine colic. 
Should the solution not return after throwing into the uterus 
three or four syringefuls of the mild alkaline antiseptic, the re- 
current instrument should be withdrawn for the purpose of re- 
moving any clot or membrane which may have stopped its re- 
turn. The recurrent douche is then reinserted and the treatment 
continued. 

The secretions of the uterus are alkaline, therefore the alka- 
line solution, given in another chapter, should always be intro- 
duced, say two or three syringefuls, through the recurrent douche, 
for testing toleration before alternating it with the acid peroxid 
of hydrogen solution. A beginner should necessarily use more 
caution than one who is fully accustomed to the treatment. 

The required instruments having been placed in a porcelain 
basin, boiling water and a bichlorid of mercury solution should 
be added to make them aseptic. After the patient has adjusted 
herself on the chair a piece of paper toweling is folded and laid 

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on a piece of rubber sheeting 9x15 inches and slipped under the 
hips ; the speculum is inserted into the vagina and a cup or basin 
for receiving the returning solutions is placed against the peri- 
neum. The vaginal passage is then cleaned with a solution of 
1-1000 or 1-2000 bichlorid of mercury. The uterine sound 
being slightly curved is carefully made to enter the cervix, and 




This elevated intra-uterine douche method — the uninterrupted stream — is 
impracticable, because the continuous stream causes contractions so suddenly, 
and without presenting' any sign or symptom of warning to enable the physician 
to avert uterine colic. 

by gentle manipulations its points will pass into the uterus, show- 
ing the position of the fundus. Withdraw the sound and grasp 
a very small pledget of cotton in the points of the dressing for- 
ceps, only large enough to protect the cervical canal, dip the 
points into carbolated antiseptic or white vaseline., and pass it 
then through the cervix, unless the cervix is extremely sensitive, 
when the pledget should be made wet in a two per cent solution 



INTRA-UTERINE MEDICATION 13 

of cocaine and left in the cervix from one to two minutes. Re- 
peat the process until the sensitiveness is overcome and enough 
dilation obtained to introduce the small recurrent douche. 

When preparing solutions for washing out the uterus, fill 
an eight-ounce cup nearly full with cold aseptic water, and add 
from three to five drams of the alkaline solution, given in another 
chapter, or any similar alkaline antiseptic of same strength. To 
this add boiling water till the temperature is from 90 to 105 de- 




This interrupted stream method is practical because when solutions are 
introduced too rapidly, too strong, too hot or too cold a dull pain will occur 
which is a warning sign that will enable the practitioner to prevent uterine colic. 

grees Fah. Two or three syringefuls of this solution should be 
thrown into the uterus before introducing the peroxide solution. 
In preparing a one-third strength peroxid solution, take a 
three-ounce bottle containing one ounce of peroxid and add one 
ounce of cold sterilized or boiled water, then add one ounce of 
boiling water, which makes its temperature about 100. It is then 
ready to be thrown into the uterus alternately with the alkaline 
solution. 

Whenever the uterus and pelvic tissues are affected with 
chronic inflammation the dehydrating pack of cotton or wool 
saturated with glycerin should be inserted against the cervix, in 
order to remove the serous fluids which obstruct the pelvic cir- 
culation and induce edema. 



INSTRUMENTS. 

On page are cuts used at different times for applying 

intra-uterine medication. 

In 1885 there were scarcely any recurrent douches on the 
market, and what were to be had, were too large, long and ill- 
shaped, that they could not be used without producing cervical 
anesthesia. To treat successfully uterine diseases the physician 
must have the appropriate instruments for applying the intra- 
uterine method of injections. The author uses all of these in- 
struments at different times. 

No. 1 is a cut of a half-spiral curette and a very valuable 
instrument for removing the whole, part or retained placental 
fragments following the removal of a dead foetus or after any 
of the different kinds of justifiable abortions, and is indispensable 
to the general practitioner. 

No. 2 is a cut of my small recurrent douche, which is 7 inches 
long and only T % of an inch in diameter; it is the most im- 
portant instrument for applying intra-uterine medication. 

No. 3 is a cut of my bivalve vaginal speculum, and is the 
handiest, for all of its adjusting parts are above; the outer end 
of its lower valve has been greatly improved by an extension 
lip. Through its operating parts a brace may be temporarily 
placed so as to prevent the small douche from slipping out of the 
uterus. 

No. 4 is a cut of an intra-uterine half-ounce, hard rubber, 
long pipe syringe, which introduces the various medicated solu- 
tions into the uterus by connecting directly with the outer end 
of the small douche. No larger instrument should ever be used 
for medicating the uterus. One physician orders one dozen of 
these syringes at a time, but two is enough if any one knows how 
to repack the piston with good leather. 

No. 5 is a cut of an applicator for swabbing the uterus. 

No. 6 is a cut of my small specially curved, slender pointed 
uterine forceps; their importance equals that of the recurrent 
douche, as it is the only instrument I use for dilating the cervix 
sufficiently to introduce my small recurrent douche. A very 
small cotton pledget, just large enough to protect the cervix, is 
inserted into their points, wetted in some antiseptic solution, and 

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dipped into carbolated vaseline and then carefully passed through 
the cervical canal, following the course ascertained thait the 
uterine sound took. By repeating the insertion of the forceps 
two or three times, dilatation of the cervix will allow the recur- 
rent douche to be introduced. 

No. 7 is a cut of a uterine sound used after inserting the 
speculum and antiseptically cleansing of the vaginal canal. It 
requires patience and gentle tact to pass the uterine sound 
through the cervix of the uterus of some women and ascertain 
the depth and location of its body. 

No. 8 is a cut of a small dull curette, f$ of an inch wide, for 
removing some small adhering fragments of the placenta when 
it is impossible to pass a larger curette through the cervix without 
anesthesia. 

No. 9 is a cut of a dull, flat curette, one half inch wide, used 
for removing adhering fragments of the placenta which the 
half-spiral curette was unable to remove, and which should al- 
ways be used in every case where it is necessary to use the 
spiral curette. The use of the spiral and dull curette treatment 
should always be followed by washing out the uterus every 24 
hours for three days and afterwards every second day if 
necessary. 

Nos. 10, 11 and 12 are cuts of very thin steel plates to be 
worn in the toes of shoes to give proper pressure to the ball of 
the foot, which relieves pain and prevents gangrene. A convex 
elevation forms in the sole of the shoe, which obstructs the cir- 
culation to the toes, causing pain and gangrene. I can supply 
these plates. 



MEDICATED SOLUTIONS. 

There is no limit to medicated solutions or mixtures, that 
may be used with benefit to meet the various diseased conditions 
of the uterus. As the secretions of the uterus are alkaline, the 
first liquid thrown into the cavity, at the beginning of a treatment 
for testing its toleration, should be an alkaline antiseptic. Drug- 
gists do not manufacture an alkaline antiseptic, so it will be 
necessary for physicians who practise this beneficent method, to 
prepare a solution for their own use. 

The writer keeps on hand the following articles for pre- 
paring an alkaline antiseptic : A wedgwood or porcelain mortar, 
two-quart glass funnel, twelve-inch white filtering paper, pow- 
dered charcoal, lump magnesia carbonate, and four or five rods 
eight inches long, size of a pencil, for placing between the funnel 
and filtering paper. After dissolving and mixing all of the in- 
gredients, a cotton pledget is pressed into the neck of the funnel, 
which when wetted will not slip out ; the rods or sticks placed 
at equal distance in the funnel, the filtering paper unfolded and 
spread out in the funnel. Put Z,ii of magnesia carbonate and 
Z,ii of powdered charcoal into the mortar, triturate and add 
nearly a pint of the antiseptic mixture, and pour it into the 
filtering paper, adding more as fast as it filters through. To give 
the gallon mixture a nice color, add between two or three drams 
of liquid carmine. 

The following solution is more efficient for controlling endo- 
metritis than other antiseptics, for it possesses the sedative vera- 
trum virides and belladonna for overcoming uterine congestion, 
which is prepared in quarts and added altogether and filtered: 
First quart — 

3$ Dissolve salicylic acid oz. viij 

Sodium bicarbonate oz. viij 

Aqua Bullientis o. ij 

Second quart — 

Dissolve boracic acid oz. viii 

Sodium bicarbonate oz. iv 

Aqua Bullientis o. ij 

Third quart — 

Oil of Cassia oz. ss 

Oil of Gaultheria oz. ss 

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INTRA-UTERINE MEDICATION 17 

Triturate the oils with a dram or two of magnesia carbonate 
in the mortar with a pint of hot water and filter before adding 
enough water to make the third quart. 

Fourth quart — 

9 Alcohol oz. viii 

95% Phenol oz. iii 

Fl. Ext. Veratrum virides oz. ii 

Fl. Ext. Belladonna oz. ii 

Aqua Bullientis o. ij 

This prepares two gallons of an alkaline antiseptic which 
may be reduced one half and then one ounce of it added to 7 
ounces of warm water when washing out the uterus. 

It is unnecessary to consider here the various diseases to 
which the uterus is subject, as they will be discussed under their 
respective titles. 

Conditions that make the uterus tolerate quite strong solu- 
tions are chronic inflammation, child-bearing, menopause and 
growths of the uterus, abortions improperly treated, old age, per- 
versions of the circulation, which develop subinvolution, edema, 
and muscular atony. 

We have emerged from an age when the general opinion 
was that in order to control inflammation of long standing, it 
was necessary to create a new one. This theory will noft hold 
good when applied to inflammation of the uterus. Within a few 
months after the endometrium and part of the parenchyma of 
the uterus become inflamed, they acquire infiltration. This state 
of the tissues deranges the circulation, weakens muscular fibers, 
and obstructs reparative action. Will curettement or cauterizing 
the endometrium remove the infiltrated fluid, correct the circu- 
lation and assist the reparative force? No. Then there is no 
need of introducing substances strong enough to enfeeble further 
or destroy the tissues. 

This chapter is devoted to solutions for controlling inflam- 
mation, irritation and infection by washing septic material out 
of the uterus. This can be accomplished only with such sub- 
stances as will not destroy tissues. 

The uterus will tolerate from ten to sixty per cent of 
peroxid of hydrogen when alternated with an alkaline antiseptic, 
as follows : 

Listerine, from 3 to 5 per cent. 

Lysol (lysolum purum), from 3 to 5 minims to the ounce of 
water. 

Creolin, from V 2 to 2 per cent. 

Bichlorid of Mercnrv, from 1-4000 to 1-1000. 



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Sesquicarbonate of Potassa, a mild vegetable remedy, from 
5 to 10 grains to the ounce. 

Sulphate iron (old copperas remedy), indicated in chronic 
inflammation and hemorrhages when fragments are seen 
in the solutions returning from the uterus ; 2 to 3 grains 
to the ounce. 

Persulphate Iron (Monsel's solution), indicated in uterine 
hemorrhage which may occur at anytime; from 5 to 15 
grains to the ounce. Pledgets of cotton, with string at- 
tached, may be wetted in solutions of this iron and 
inserted into the uterine cavity, with string attached. 

Escatol is a mild escharotic and antiseptic originated by the 
late Dr. Andrew Jackson Hlowe of Cincinnati, Ohio, as follows : 
Hamamelis distilled. 

Glycerin aa oz. iv 

Salicylic acid grs. xxxx 

Chlorid Zinc grs. xx 

Misce and filter. 

Sig. : Use of this fluid a half to one dram to one ounce of 
warm water. Indicated whenever the endometrium is covered 
with bleeding vegetative growths, and if used every forty-eight 
hours for a few treatments there will be no necessity for 
curettement. 

Pinus canadensis (dark) : From 5 to 8 minims to the ounce. 

Acid carbolic : From 4 to 6 minims of a 95 per cent solu- 
tion to the ounce. 

Acid boric: From 10 to 15 grains to the ounce. 

Non-alcoholic Hydrastis, colored or non-colored: 10 to 20 
minims to the ounce. 

Thymol: 2 to 3 grains to the ounce. 

Potassa Permanganate : 1 part of the salt dissolved in 9 parts 
of distilled water has been suggested as a standard solu- 
tion. Of this from half a part to two parts may be 
added to sixteen parts of water. 

Normal tinct. or specific med. Echinacea: From 3 ss. to 
3 1. to the ounce. 

Magnesia sulphate : 5 to 10 grains to the ounce, and 95 per 
cent Phenol, 2 minims to the ounce, is especially effi- 
cacious in overcoming any sensitiveness caused by cu- 
rettage, followed by a hot water bag over the hypo- 
gastric region for two or three hours. 

Zinc Sulphas : From 2 to 3 grains to the ounce. 

Zinc Chlorid: 1 to 2 grains to the ounce. 



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Silver Nitrate: 2 to 6 grains to the ounce. 

Swabbing the uterine cavity, when indicated, is very bene- 
ficial. Whenever washing out the uterus with the alkaline anti- 
septic and peroxid solutions does not control any condition 
satisfactorily, the uterus should be swabbed with Campho-phe- 
nique for two or three treatments, and immediately washed out 
with the alkaline and peroxid solutions. 

When the endometrium is covered with a tenacious muco- 
purulent or necrotic material it may be easily overcome by swab- 
bing with Campho-phenique, then washing out with the regular 
solutions and finishing with sulphate of iron, from 1 to 2 grains 
to the ounce. 

Tinct. Iodine, two parts, and Carbolic acid, one part, is an 
excellent mixture for swabbing the uterus, but it should always 
be washed out immediately with the alkaline and peroxid 
solutions. 

One need not necessarily confine himself to the foregoing list 
of remedies. Every physician has several favorite applications 
and antiseptics which, in all cases may be equally efficacious. 



RESOURCES OF INTRA-UTERINE MEDICATION 
COMPARED WITH SURGERY 

The non-surgical resources of intra-uterine medication are 
so efficient for controlling the majority of pelvic diseases and 
reflex irritations that it is a wonder the Orificialists resort to 
surgery for correcting these functional conditions. It may be 
well to mention conditions which indicate surgery: Vaginal 
hysterectomy; removing fibroid tumors; restoring cervical lacera- 
tion ; removal of pelvic tumors ; removal of ovaries and diseased 
tubes ; restoring perineal laceration ; curetting the uterus ; circum- 
cision; cervico-vaginal fistula; tumors and fistulas of the vaginal 
labia. 

The following reflex irritations and pelvic functional condi- 
tions can be controlled by nonsurgical gynecology or intra-uterine 
treatments : Acute metritis ; reflex pains of the ovaries, due to 
endometritis ; reflex tic douloureux from uterine irritation ; 
sympathetic stomach troubles, due to uterine irritation; reflex 
headaches from uterine irritation, before or after menstruation ; 
acnitis from uterine infection ; reflex backache from uterine irri- 
tation and inflammation ; retroversion, due to uterine inflamma- 
tion and cell ptosis ; dysmenorrhea, due to inflammation, neurosis 
and reflex spinal irritation : chronic endometritis ; acute or 
chronic cervicitis; leucorrhea; reflex sciatica from uterine irri- 
tation ; all kinds of uterine hemorrhages and ulceration of the 
endometrium. 

Its specific influence over conditions resulting from the meno- 
pause controls hemorrhages ; obtains drainage ; contrails uterine 
infection ; aids atrophy by overcoming edema of the uterus ; con- 
trols hot and cold flushes, bloating, sweating and melancholy ; 
prevents rheumatic pains, caused by uterine infection. It has 
overcome cancer of the uterus, appearing before and after the 
climateric period ; controls uterine infection in elderly women, 
who have acquired subinvolution, twenty to thirty years after the 
menopause ; it has prevented insanity, due to the menopause, and 
when the uterus is properly treated by this method, it prevents 
growth following the critical period. 

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INTRA-UTERINE MEDICATION 21 

Its resources in an obstetrical practice, restore the suppressed 
lochia ; overcomes subinvolution, following puerperium ; over- 
comes puerperal septicemia; controls phlegmasia, alba dolens, 
following puerperium or the removal of a dead fetus. It is a 
specific treatment for removing a retained dead fetus; restores 
lactation, suppressed from uterine infection ; is a reliable treat- 
ment for accidental, spontaneous and justifiable abortion, con- 
trolling uterine infection during and following unavoidable 
criminal abortion, produced by women or neighboring physicians. 
Its efficacy overcomes the practitioner's anxiety, when called to 
save life in an unavoidable abortion, and in many cases of 
emergency. 

Every branch of the medical practice is overcrowded with 
specialists, except the Orificialist's nonsurgical gynecology. There 
are hundreds of women, in every physician's hailiwick in this 
country suffering with nonsurgical diseases of the pelvis, which 
can be controlled by the intra-uterine method. These nonsurgical 
chronic diseases of women, offer an excellent opportunity to phy- 
sicians who desire to change from general to office practice. 



METRITIS 

There is scarcely another disease which causes such severe 
suffering as acute metritis. This is because the uterus is so dense 
and its tissues so nearly all muscular fibers that when it becomes 
inflamed and swollen the nerves are pinched by pressure. There- 
fore, acute metritis requires an active and direct treatment, to 
control it early enough to prevent the inflammation from extend- 
ing into contiguous parts or from becoming chronic. 

We must not believe, because pain has been relieved, that the 
inflammation has been controlled. The treatment may have in- 
duced a slight relaxation which lessens the pressure on the nerves, 
thus relieving the pain. 

Etiology, acute metritis arises more frequently, perhaps, from 
arrested menstruation, abortion, physical injury, such as a severe 
blow or a fall; deep cauterization or laceration of the cervix, 
chronic inflammation, increased by systemic exudations and sub- 
acute colds ; extension of inflammation from the vagina ; throw- 
ing strong irritants into the uterus; curettage and other instru- 
mental manipulations between the fifth and eighth weeks of preg- 
nancy for emptying the uterus. 

In these early abortions, the ovum is so small, that the 
greater portion of the endometrium is exposed to the direct in- 
fluence of irritants and manipulations, delayed curettement fol- 
lowing abortion and septic infection. 

General symptoms: The general symptoms are rigors, hot, 
dry skin, headache, accelerated and weak pulse, dry and furred 
tongue, thirst with pain and tenderness in the uterine region. The 
abdomen, at first soft, becomes tympanitic, and if the proper treat- 
ment is not begun early the inflammation may extend to the peri- 
toneum, when the pain will spread over the abdomen with symp- 
toms of peritonitis. The lochial discharge may be diminished and 
retained. This rapidly decomposes, and if not washed out every 
twenty-four to thirty hours will cause the pain to return even 
after, to all appearances, the active inflammation has terminated. 
The return of pain is caused by irritation and infection and does 
not signify that the inflammation has increased. 

The conventional treatment for metritis at hospitals, where 
the intra-uterine method is unknown and physicians are afraid 

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of inducing uterine colic, is vaginal douches from an elevated 
reservoir, hot-water bag, or stupes, over the hypogastrium, hypo- 
dermic injections of morphine and some mixed germ killer. This 
is an ingeniously scientific and skillful treatment, for it nearly 
always leaves chronic inflammation, edema of the uterus, back- 
ache, headache, and a profuse discharge. 

Treatment: It requires from six to ten days to control 
metritis, but by a direct treatment the fever and pain may be sub- 
dued in seventy-two hours. This depends on its cause and 
whether the treatment was sufficiently active and continued long 
enough. Hot applications over the hypogastrium every four or 
five minutes for forty-eight to seventy-two hours, assisted with 
relaxing sedatives internally for a week or more, may be consid- 
ered a direct treatment. But when the inflammation is caused by 
contracting colds, which suppresses menstruation and discharges 
following parturition, abortion or laceration of the cervix, and 
other injuries, then it would not be a direct treatment unless the 
uterus is washed out every twenty-four or forty-eight hours with 
a weak alkaline antiseptic alternated with a fifteen per cent solu- 
tion of peroxid, to prevent irritation, absorption and control in- 
fection. 

This treatment will control most cases of metritis and pre- 
vent chronic inflammation, but some with constipation and per- 
verted circulation will require the local and general treatment 
prolonged. 



LACERATION OF THE CERVIX 

Laceration of the cervix, during parturition, abortion, and 
by the introduction of the curette is often followed by various 
inflammations, areolar hyperplasia, nervous prostration, constitu- 
tional effects and eventually uterine growths. These serious con- 
ditions present a necessity for a treatment capable of mitigating 
such dreadful effects. 

Upon this subject Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet says : "Its im- 
portance cannot be exaggerated, since one-half of the ailments 
of those who have borne children are to be attributed to lacera- 
tion of the cervix." 

The first effect noticed is that the lochial discharge becomes 
diminished, decomposed and offensive. The second is retarded 
recovery and involution. The third is noticed as local inflamma- 
tion, sensitiveness to pressure, and a mild but increasing fever, 
the height and severity of the fever depending upon the dura- 
tion and extent of the local infection that is allowed to ensue. 

Efforts at healing the laceration, develop, not infrequently, 
enlargement and induration of the whole cervix from areolar 
hyperplasia. Whenever there is constipation, a sallow skin and 
nervous prostration, at the inception of the laceration the 
sclerosed tissue will form beneath the laceration. But with the 
present authentic mode of treatment, the retained lochial dis- 
charge will continue the inflammation, so that the cicatricial 
tissue will not form for months, in some cases not even in years. 
Without the protecting influence of the scar tissue there must 
be a continual infection, with local irritation, and more or less 
general disturbance through reflex action. 

An operation upon such a cervix, will control the infection 
at the laceration, but not that of the uterus and tubes. With the 
reparative forces in a feeble condition, the curetting of the 
uterine cavity often produces salpingitis. 

The complete description of the different forms of lacera- 
tion of the cervix uteri, is found in Dr. Alexander J. C. Skene's 
"Diseases of Women," from which the following is quoted: 

The several forms of laceration of the cervic uteri most 
frequently seen in practice are: 

1. Lateral lacerations of one or both of its walls. 

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INTRA-UTERINE MEDICATION 25 

2. Anterioposterior laceration; usually found in the pos- 
terior wall, but occasionally involving both. 

3. Multiple lacerations, three in number, though some- 
times more. < 

4. Incomplete lacerations, in which the solution of con- 
tinuity extends from within, outward, through the mucous mem- 
brane of the vagina. This form of injury is generally bi-lateral, 
though occasionally the lacerations are multiple, involving the 
two walls laterally, and the posterior and anterior walls also. 

The fourth form is frequently produced by dilatation for 
the purpose of curetting the uterine cavity. 

"Sometimes two df these forms of injury are found to- 
gether, as for example, a complete bilateral laceration and an 
incomplete laceration of the anterior wall of the cervix. The 
first and by far the most common of these injuries, lateral lacera- 
tion, presents several varieties. The bilateral laceration, in its 
typical form, divides the cervix into two equal parts, and extends 
up to the vaginal junction. As seen at times, the laceration is 
superficial, extending not more than half-way up to the vaginal 
junction, while on the other it is much less extensive. In other 
cases the bilateral laceration divides the cervix into unequal 
parts, the anterior portion usually being the larger." 

Following the labor and the removal of the secundines, make 
a digital examination to ascertain if laceration has resulted and 
to notice its form and degree. The physician who neglects this 
duty is censurable, for upon its performance depends the wel- 
fare and future treatment for preventing the constitutional 
effects. Having discovered that the cervix is lacerated, prescribe 
the following medicines to protect the blood from infection : 

1$ Potassii chloratis 5j 

Ext. Cimicifugae 3ij 

Ext. Echinacea angust 5 SS 

Ext. Nucis Vomicae fl Gtts.x 

S}Tup simplicis ^j 

Aqua q. s Oz. iv 

Misce. Signa: One teaspoonful every two or three hours 
for one or two weeks. 

The next day place the patient crosswise upon the bed, fac- 
ing a window, electric or any other light, and with the head and 
shoulders elvated about twelve inches above the hips. With hot 
and cold aseptic water at hand for giving a proper temperature 
of from 95 to 110 degrees to the alkaline and peroxid solutions, 
proceed to wash out the uterus of all loose fragments, debris and 
lochial discharges. Cleanse and dry the surfaces of the lacera- 



26 INTRA-UTERINB MEDICATION 

tion, but never under any condition or circumstances cauterize it. 

Saturate a pack of absorbent cotton, when compressed 
about the size of a hen's egg, in the following solution : 

I* Fl. Ext. Phytolacca fy 

Glycerin |j 

Misce. Put this in a bottle and set it into a cup of hot 
water one or two minutes. Empty the water and pour the solu- 
tion into the cup. Saturate the pack in the solution and take 
one-fourth of the cotton and push it into Douglas' Cul-de-sac 
with uterine forceps. 

Divide the balance of the coton into three equal parts, plac- 
ing one on the anterior and one on each side between the cervix 
and vaginal folds. Next wet another pledget in the same solu- 
tion and place against the OS, with string attached for removing. 
This retains the packing around the cervix, holding the lacerated 
edges in coaptation. On the second morning a saline action of 
the bowels is to be obtained and repeated on alternate days with 
the local treatment. On the second day remove all of the cotton 
packing, then repeat the intrauterine injections and repack the 
cervix as previously stated. Continue these treatments at every 
forty-eight hours until four or five have been given, after which 
extend the time to three or four days, for another week, when 
the patient usually is able to visit the office for more treatments 
if it is found necessary. At the expiration of three or four 
weeks, under this treatment, the lacerated cervix is found in 
the most favorable condition to be operated upon. 

A few years ago an able writer said that "a physician is not 
to blame for laceration of the cervix, for not one in ten knows 
that laceration has occurred." 

This statement shows the prevailing idea of negligence with 
accoucheurs. I hold that every physician is culpable who will 
allow the constitutional effects resulting from laceration of the 
cervix to ruin the health of a patient, simply because he neglected 
to examine her after parturition, and failed to practice intrau- 
terine medication. It is a treatment followed positively by no 
after effects. Neglecting to practice intrauterine medication, 
whenever necessary, but directing the flushing of the vaginal pas- 
sages as a subterfuge, exhibits a lack of courage in the physician. 
The results of intrauterine treatment of laceration of the cervix 
uteri are: 

1. Infection is positively prevented. 

2. Involution is assured. 

3. Recovery from the effects of parturition is promptly 
obtained. 



INTRA-UTERINE MEDICATION 27 

4. By preventing inflammation there will be no enlarge- 
ment, hardening or stenosis of the cervix from areolar hyper- 
plasia, and no stricture of the vagina. 

5. Duration of the lochia shortened, its quantity lessened 
and rendered innocuous. 

6. Three weeks after delivery the cervix is in the best pos- 
sible condition for an operation. 

7. Sterility does not ensue. 

8. By preventing inflammation, sexual apathy does not 
result as frequently as otherwise. 



CERVICAL ENDOMETRITIS 

The symptoms of acute and even chronic cervicitis, are hypo- 
gastric pain, peritoneal sensitiveness, bearing-down and excessive 
secretion. Constipation is the constant accompaniment of this 
disease, and it is the first indication for treatment. Later we 
have menstrual disturbance, often purulent discharge, hemorrhage 
and sterility. Etiology : Specific inflammation, injures from 
abortion and curettage, infection of the nabothian follicles by 
acrid discharges. 

The introduction of the sound usually causes pain and bleed- 
ing. The differential diagnosis from polypi, carcinoma, and 
sarcoma will depend first upon the history of the case and upon 
the microscopic examination. The systemic disorders accom- 
panying this form of the disease are neuralgia, indigestion, 
hysteria, spinal irritation and cervical infection. 

Relapse is very common. The mild cases yield to local and 
systemic treatment rapidly, while the more obstinate cases, com- 
plicated with systemic perversions, will require recourse to a 
more prolonged and rigid treatment. If the microscopic exami- 
nation shows that the cause of the cervicitis is specific, treat it 
as prescribed in the chapter on gonorrhea. As in the catarrhal 
form the diagnosis, for adapting a direct treatment, will depend 
upon the degree of metabolic obstruction, sallow complexion and 
cell atony. 

Treatment : Constipation may be overcome by a liberal use 
of the mineral oils ; from one to three tablespoonfuls should be 
taken if found necessary. Suggest such nourishment that will 
restore the ratio of the acid and alkali secretions. Order the 
skin anointed with olive oil once a week and dry-towel friction 
every morning. The local treatment consists of cleansing the 
uterine cavity of any endometrium discharge every third day 
with the alkaline and peroxid solutions. 

To remove the profuse and tenacious discharge from the 
cervix grasp a cotton pledget the size of a marble in the points 
of the dressing forceps, saturate it in liquid Campho-phenique 
and apply it thoroughly to the bleeding cervix, following this 
immediately with a cotton pledget of the same size saturated in 
Monsel's solution of iron. Prepare an absorbent solution as 
follows : 

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IJ Magnesia sulphate oz. ss. 

Normal tinct. or spec. med. 

Phytolacca oz. ss. 

Aqua q. s. oz. iv. 

Misc. Sig. : Saturate a cotton or wool pack, size 1^4 inches, 
in this solution, with string attached, and insert it against the 
cervix to remain 24 hours. 

When the cervical discharge is yellow give Kali Sulph 3X 
three tablets every three hours. If the discharge is white, give 
Kali Mur 3X three tablets every three hours. 

Cervical endometritis has always responded to this local and 
systemic treatment. 



PUERPERAL FEVER 



Puerperal fever is an infectious disease, due, as a rule, to 
septic inoculation of the wounds which results from the separa- 
tion of the decidua, previous inflammation of the pelvic organs, 
and from the passage of the child through the genital canal in 
the act of parturition. 

Whenever this disease occurs, shortly after parturition, the 
physician should wash out the uterus every twenty-four hours 
with the mild alkaline antiseptic and peroxid solutions. Should 
any of the secundines be retained, administer an anesthetic short 
of producing anesthesia, and remove them with the half spiral 
and dull curettes. Then cleanse the uterine cavity with the 
alkaline and peroxid solutions and finish the treatment with a 
solution of: 

T$ Magnesia Sulphas 3iss 

95% Phenol Gtt. x 

Aqua q. s 5 V J 

Inject this solution through the recurrent douche into the 
uterine cavity and place a hot water bag over the hypogastric 
region for two or three hours. Repeat the uterine injections 
every twenty-four hours for three or four days, then every forty- 
eight hours. 

Should peritonitis threaten, with full pulse, dry skin, sensi- 
tive abdomen and high temperature, give a hypodermic injection 
of an eighth of a grain of Pilocarpin hydrochlorid and sponge off 
the body with normal tincture or specific medicine Veratrum 
Virides 3ij ; Aqua q. s. oz. vi. When profuse perspiration ap- 
pears give four grains of quinine, which restores the secretions. 
Control the abdominal hyperesthesia by applying cloths wrung 
out in hot carbolated magnesia sulphas solution every four 
minutes. Early infection may be controlled with: 
1$ Normal tincture or spec. med. 

Echinacea oz. 1 

Bryonia Gtt. x 

Gelsemium 3 ss 

(or Veratrum Gtts. xx instead of the Gelsemium) 
Aqua q. s oz. iv 

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Misce. Sig. : One dram every half hour for three or four 
hours, then every one or two hours. 

This treatment will overcome any case of puerperal fever, if 
the peritonitis has not advanced beyond control, and the instruc- 
tions have been closely followed. 



RETROVERSION OF THE UTERUS 

Fifty years ago retroversion of the uterus was cured by in- 
ternal medication, for at that time people were less affected with 
cell ptosis. Most of our foods, however, are now prepared with 
stimulants which produce reflex contraction and relaxation of 
the cells, and retroversion will be difficult to cure, so long as 
women nourish their system with these ptotic-producing foods. 
As soon as physicians learn what foods alternately and imper- 
ceptibly contract and relax the cells, they will cease resorting 
to operations, and transfer this ailment back to the practitioner 
for a restorative treatment. 

When there is a ptotic condition of the uterine ligaments 
there is also general cell atony, and to stitch the retroverted uterus 
to the back is but a palliative treatment, inasmuch as it cannot 
restore tonicity to the cells. Patients who have submitted to an 
operation are frequently known to say that they "have never 
since been well." 

Etiology: Cell ptosis, injury, inflammation, adhesions, 
child-bearing and abortions are the greatest factors of retrover- 
sion; and few things show our weakness more than to acknowl- 
edge that we are unable to restore the uterus to its normal posi- 
tion. Retroversion is always complicated with corporeal or 
catarrhal endometritis, constipation, and general relaxation of 
the bowels and ligaments of the uterus. These conditions are 
characterized by a bad complexion, fatigue and nervous spells ; 
the veins on the wrist exhibit a pink and hydrous condition of 
the blood. There is also a disposition to colds and, on deep pres- 
sure, hyperesthesia of the intestines. 

If the patient is losing weight and the bowels are affected 
with catarrh, the condition will be reflected on the surface of the 
abdomen, the skin being darker, more lifeless and inelastic. 

Whenever subinvolution and endometritis are present and 
the pelvic tissues relaxed and filled with serous fluid retrover- 
sion will take place, which obstructs drainage, producing irrita- 
tion, ulceration and development of fungosities, granulations and 
other growths of the endometrium. 

It will be observed that there are two localities where in- 
fections are continually occurring — one in the uterus and the 

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other in the intestines. To improve the general health it will be 
necessary to control the catarrah of the bowels as well as the in- 
fection in the uterus. For the bowels give: 

1$ Distilled Hamamelis , 3ii 

Kali Sulph 3X. Powder or Tab 5i 

Fowler's Solution 3ss 

Aqua q. s oz. iv 

Misce. Signa: One dram in water every three hours. 
To heal the bowels and act as a laxative, give: 

If Alcohol , ". 3iii 

Glycerin oz. i 

Fl. Ext. Alexander Senna oz. i 

Aqua q. s . .w oz. iv 

Misce. Signa: One tablespoonful in a glass of hot or cold 
water before breakfast only. 

For assisting elimination prepare : 

IJ Petrolatum white .oz. ii 

Oil of Gloves Gtt. xx 

Tincture of Capsicum Gtt. xx 

Misce. Signa: Anoint the body, following a tepid sponging, 
twice a week. 

To protect the head from colds order a shampoo and final 
rinsing with cold water. 

Intrauterine medication is a direct treatment for removing 
poison from the uterus, controlling endometritis and discharging 
serous fluids from the pelvic tissues. 

Local Treatment: Wash out the uterus with the alkaline 
antiseptic and peroxid solutions for four or five treatments. 

To elevate the uterus without producing pain obtain from 
one-quarter to five-sixteenths of an inch dilatation of the cervix ; 
with uterine forceps grasp a cotton pledget that will pass through 
it, yet large enough to protect the uterus ; pass the forceps through 
the cervix with the points down until reaching the fundus; 
slightly raise the handles and begin turning the forceps until 
the points are up, then gently depress the handles until the uterus 
assumes its natural position. A small weight may be placed on 
the forceps' handles for two or three minutes to hold and accus- 
tom the uterus to its proper place. Withdraw the forceps and 
introduce the intrauterine douche and gently throw in a few 
syringefuls of some mild alkaline antiseptic, alternating with 
twenty-five or fifty per cent solution of peroxid. Finish the 
treatment by saturating a pledget of cotton or wool in one part 
specific elaterium and three parts glycerin, and insert it against 
the cervix to remain twenty-four hours. 



34 INTRA-UTERINE MEDICATION 

Whenever the abdominal walls become so relaxed as to be 
pendulous, contraction may be obtained by applying stimulant 
compresses for a few nights, prepared as follows: 

5 Pulv. Cinnamon oz. ss 

Pulv. Ginger oz. ss 

Pulv. Cloves oz. ss 

Pulv. Piper Nigrum oz. ss 

Aqua O IV. Boil for two or three minutes. Wring out a 
two-ply flannel cloth large enough to cover the hypogastrium, 
cover with oilcloth and bandage. These spices exert a wonderful 
contracting influence, removing sensitiveness and often over- 
coming tympanitis due to partial paralysis of the muscular coats 
of the intestines. Retroversion has always responded to this in- 
trauterine medication. 

The physician who equips himself properly for the practice 
of intrauterine medication will suffer few disappointments and 
experience no regrets. On the contrary, the benefits from such 
a system will inspire him to further efforts along this line of 
treatment. 



DISPLACEMENTS OF THE UTERUS 

Displacements of the uterus are increasing, and keeping 
parallel with many other ptotic conditions that are developing in 
the abdominal and pelvic cavities. 

First, we must exclude those which are congenital from 
want of symmetrical development, and second, where obstinate 
adhesions have relegated them to the domain of surgery. The 
majority of cases of malposition are caused by child-bearing, 
abortion, constipation, and catarrhal inflammations. These are 
downward, backward or forward; that is, prolapsus, retrover- 
sion and antiversion. The first two forms, a physician is most 
frequently called upon to treat, and are divided into first, second 
and third degrees. 

When the cervix rests on the pelvic floor it is called the first 
degree; when appearing at the vulva, the second degree; when 
outside the introitus, partially or wholly, it is the third degree. 
Some authorities divide these conditions into incomplete, when 
the uterus still lies within the vulva, or complete, when beyond 
the vulva. This latter state of disease, is called procidentia. 
The time occupied in these changes of position varies from a few 
weeks to months, and even years, but the change is usually slow. 

Imperfect involution, after parturition and abortion, are 
the cases that assume the third degree, within a few days. If these 
cases come under the physician's care promptly and are treated 
by the intra-uterine method, in combination with the removal of 
the edema by the use of Fl. Ext. Normal tinct., or specific med. 
elaterium one part and glycerin three parts, the organ will quickly 
assume its natural position. 

Those cases which are months or years in progressive dis- 
placement, are the result of constipation and ptosis of uterine 
ligaments and pelvic tisues. 

We cannot expect an immediate result, as in the first class of 
cases, but these displacements of long standing will assume a 
normal position, when treated by intrauterine medication twice 
a week, for two or three months. With this mechanical treat- 
ment, it is necessary to induce a methodical and regular action 
of the bowels, combined with indicated blood and uterine tonics. 

Symptoms arising from all displacements and their result- 

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ing complications, which refer to the pelvic organs, and the 
nervous system are: difficulty in walking and standing; pelvic 
pain, usually of a bearing-down nature; pain in the sacral region, 
running down the inner aspect of the thigh ; in the top of the 
head, either of a neuralgic or interrupted character; or dull, 
heavy, continuous pain ; painful or excessive menstruation ; diffi- 
cult defecation; frequent abortion; sterility; constipation. 

Those referred to the nervous system are hysteria, neuralgia, 
nervous dyspepsia, spinal anemia and hyperaemia. 

Physical Signs: It is understood that an examination of 
the pelvic organs must only be made when the bladder and 
rectum are completely empty. This point cannot be too strongly 
emphasized; equally important is the fact that a dislocation of 
the uterus, per se, can never be considered, but the condition of 
all adjacent organs as well as the adnexa must be considered. 

If the vaginal outlet, during labor be injured and the peri- 
neum cannot longer act as a resistant to the bladder and rectum, 
the unsupported walls of these organs pouch out and the condi- 
tion is met, known as cystocele and rectocele. The Vaginal walls, 
being attached to the uterus, pull the organ down, and we have 
uterine prolapsus. The bladder, rectum, fallopian tubes and 
ovaries, being connected with the uterus, are also disturbed in 
their relations to each other, with a resultant general dislocation 
of all the pelvic organs. 

If the bladder is empty and the muscles of the abdomen 
relaxed, the patient on the left side, a bimanual examination 
should be made to ascertain the degree of dislocation, adhesions, 
growths or fixation. A speculum examination should then be 
made, most of which results being negative, unless the cervix is 
dilated, and the uterus washed out, to obtain the diagnostic in- 
fluence of peroxid of hydrogen. 

Treatment of Displacements: The treatment for displace- 
ments should be such as to meet the conditions that exist from 
these abnormal positions of the uterus. 

1. Remove the irritating or septic material from the uterus. 

2. Allay the inflammation of the endometrium. 

3. Deplete or unload the pelvic organs of serous fluids. 

4. Correct the condition of the blood and control uterine 
exudation. 

5. Replace the uterus at regular intervals. 

6. Obtain tonicity and contraction of the abdomen and 
muscles of the uterus. 



INTRA-UTERINE MEDICATION 37 

First, the uterus should be washed out every third day with 
a twenty-five or fifty per cent solution of peroxide of hydrogen 
by the intrauterine method, per instructions in the chapter, 
"Directions for Washing out the Uterus." 

In many cases of displacement all of the retained toxins, 
from deficient elimination, are secreted through the uterus. This 
shows the necessity, in either a dry or a moist skin, to stimulate 
its action by anointing it once a week, followed by dry towel- 
rubbing every morning. 



MECHANICAL TREATMENT OF DISPLACEMENTS 
OF THE UTERUS 

Mechanical Means of Treatment. — For the removal of the 
serous fluids from the uterus and pelvic tissues, we advise : 

If> Specific medicine, elaterium one or two parts, glycerin 
two or three parts ; prepare it in a bottle ; set the bottle in a cup 
of hot water, and when warm empty the hot water and pour 
three or four teaspoonfuls of the preparation into the warm cup 
for saturating a pledget of absorbent cotton or wool, which should 
be inserted against the os every third day following the intrauter- 
ine treatment. All of the dehydrating and astringent packs 
should be inserted into the vagina anterior to the cervix, which 
presses it down and backward and helps to force the fundus up 
to its natural position. 

After the serous fluids have been removed by the dehydrat- 
ing packs we find that the following astringent solution strength- 
ens the uterine ligaments and pelvic folds : 

1$ Distilled hamamelis 5 iii 

Specific medicine Geranium ......... 3 i 

Packs saturated in this solution and inserted against the 
cervix for several weeks, assisted by the patient's pinching or 
manipulating the abdominal walls every morning and night for 
absorbing the adipose tissue have proved very efficient. 

There are lateral displacements that we meet, when a fibroid 
develops, in the lateral walls of the uterus, which displaces it to 
one side of the pelvic cavity. Displacement of the uterus to one 
side, shortens the ligaments of one side and lengthens those of 
the other. 

There is pain in the side with the local growth and headache 
follows physical exertion. Manual examination can detect the 
enlargement of one side of the uterus, degree of displacement, 
and partial fixation or lack of movement. There is also partial 
retroversion and a dry or secreting endometritis. After treating 
this condition a few times with the alkaline and peroxid solu- 
tions with little or no improvement, it should be managed as 
follows: When the forceps returns from the cavity of the 
uterus with blood on the cotton it will be necessary to wash out 
the cavity of the uterus with a solution of Sulphate of Iron 
(Copperas) two grains to the ounce of warm water. Cut a 

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INTRA-UTERINE MEDICATION 39 

three- or four-ply piece of absorbent gauze three-quarters wide 
and six inches long, fold it and attach a string to the ends, sat- 
urate it in the iron solution, made stronger if necesary, catch 
the uterine sound in the loop of the folded gauze, and push it up 
into the cavity of the uterus to remain two days. 

Finish the treatment by preparing an absorbent solution, as : 

Tj> Magnesia sulphate Grs. xx 

Fl. Ext. or Spec. Med. 

Phytolacca 3 ii 

Aqua oz. ss 

Saturate a pack of cotton or wool, with string attached, and 
insert it against the cervix to remain two days, when the patient 
may remove it and come for a treatment the next day. The 
gauze wetted with iron will soften, disintegrate, break down and 
absorb abnormal growths but will not injure healthy flesh. 

When this treatment has been given from two to three 
months it has absorbed the mucus and interstitial forms of 
fibroid tumors in the walls of the uterus. 



DYSMENORRHEA 

Some of the most painful forms of dysmenorrhea puzzle 
the physician. Some respond to therapeutic effects while others 
are little benefited. Its varieties may be classified as inflamma- 
tory, catarrhal, and neurotic. 

The inflammatory form is usually complicated by an al- 
buminous exudation. The catarrhal form is also complicated by 
inflammation and exudation. Some of the neurotic forms are 
complicated with spinal irritation, density of uterine fibers, and 
hyperesthesia of uterine nerves, which are subject, during men- 
struation, to reflex impingement. 

Treatment: The inflammatory form yields to the local 
method of washing out the uterus twice a week, followed by the 
insertion of the dehydrating or glycerin packs against the cervix, 
which removes the serous fluids from the uterus and restores its 
circulation. The catarrhal form responds to the local intrau- 
terine injections when the system is nourished by a nonstimu- 
lant diet and the skin treated with dry friction every morning to 
increase elimination. With a yellow discharge give Kali sulph 
3X. Three tablets every three hours. When the discharge is 
white give Kali mur 3X. Three tablets every three hours. 

Those who have practised intrauterine medication for some 
time have learned (1) that there is a great difference of density 
of the uterus in different women; (2) that undetermined intes- 
tinal or terminal irritations do cause reflex contraction of the 
uterus, which increases its normal density, to a state of intense 
pressure on the uterine nerves; (3) that these are the influences 
which make the neurotic form of dysmenorrhea so difficult to 
control. 

This can be substantiated by the effect of child-bearing, 
which lessens the density of the uterus, by inducing muscular 
atony, and by infiltration of serous fluids. In such a condition, 
the uterus is less subject to irritation and reflex contractions. 
Forcible dilatation of the cervix cures some cases by overcoming 
cervical density and improving its circulation. 

As the neurotic form is not benefited by the intrauterine 
method, the density of the cervix may be changed by the use of 
anesthetics, and forcible dilatation or, the spinal column should 
be stretched. 

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MENORRHAGIA 

Menorrahgia should be classified among emergent troubles 
and every physician should possess more than one method for 
controlling the different degrees of hemorrhage. 

Etiology: There are some derangements of the general 
system which influence the menstrual function, but which do not 
clearly manifest their causes. Three particular derangements 
may appear as direct or indirect causes of menorrhagia. First, 
defective innervation from malnutrition or mental shock; sec- 
ond, impaired blood, and its perverted circulation; third, the 
local condition of the pelvic organs. 

The factors of menorrhagia are shock, injury, puerperal re- 
tention of membranes, polypus, fibroid tumors, cancer, erosions 
of the cervix, ulceration of the endometrium and cell ptosis. 
Treatment : Treatment for hemorrhage shock is to quiet the 
nervous system with 

If Cactus grand 3 i 

Pulsatilla 3 ss 

Aqua q. s . .oz. iv 

M. Sig. : 1 dram every one or two hours. 
Control the hemorrhage with 

1$ Distil. Hamamelis oz. ss 

Fl. Ext. or normal tincture 

belladonna Gtt vii 

Aqua q. s oz. iii 

M. Sig. : 1 dram every one or two hours. 
If from injury, give the hamamelis and belladonna and add 
tincture of arnica 3x, Gtt. x. Aqua q. s. oz. iii. Misce. Signa: 
One dram every one or two hours. 

When hemorrhage follows the puerperal stage, give dram 
doses of ergot, and manipulate the uterus to cause contraction. 
If the patient faints from loss of blood, anoint the hand, pass it 
into the vagina, and plug the cervix, and pinch the uterus with 
the other hand until uterine contractions take place. 

When membranes are retained and the cervix is dilatable, 
give an anesthetic short of complete anesthesia; now pass the 

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42 INTRA-UTERINE MEDICATION 

half spiral curette into the uterus, and showly loosen the mem- 
branes and remove them carefully by a rotary motion of the 
curette ; now wash out the uterus with the alkaline and peroxide 
solutions, and follow it with IJ Magnesia sulphate 3ii, Phenol 
Gtt. viii. M. Sig. : Throw this solution into the uterus ; finish the 
treatment with the insertion of the dehydrating packs, and apply 
the hot water bag over the hypogastrium for two or three hours ; 
repeat the treatment every twenty-four hours for three days. 
Then every 48 hours, until effervescence of the peroxide ceases. 
Infection or peritonitis has never followed this treatment. 

The treatment for polypus consists in using a remedy 
which destroys growths, but does not injure the healthy flesh. 
Wash out the uterus every two or three days, to prevent infec- 
tion from decomposed blood and sloughing tissues, and insert 
absorbent gauze, wetted in a solution of iron sulphate, five grains 
to the ounce. This method will disintegrate and absorb poly- 
pus in seven or eight weeks, when given every two or three days. 
Bleeding fibroid growths are destroyed, absorbed and the hem- 
orrhage controlled, with the sulphate of iron. The control of 
hemorrhage from cancer will be given in another chapter. 

Hemorrhage, from erosions of the cervix, are easily con- 
trolled by the application of campho-phenique, followed by Mon- 
sel's solution of iron every three or four days. Ulceration of 
the endometrium is easily controlled by the regular intrauterine 
treatment. We must occasionally control hemorrhages follow- 
ing puerperium and abortion after the uterus has been emptied. 
Such cases are affected with capillary anemia, from the effect of 
excessive use of chlorid of sodium and coffee, which induces 
cell ptosis. 

Ergot exerts only a brief influence on the hemorrhage by 
contracting the enfeebled ptotic muscles and fibers of the uterus, 
which relax and the bleeding returns. The cell ptosis affects the 
circulatory vessels also and requires remedies that exert their 
influence more on them, than on the muscles. In cases where 
the hemorrhage returns after the uterus is washed out, the fol- 
lowing remedies should be given. 

1$ Calcara fluor ix grs x 

Distil. Hamamelis oz. iss 

Fl. Ext. of Normal Tinct. 

Belladonna gtt x 

Aqua q. s , oz. iii 

Misc. Signa : One dram every one or two hours, as 
necessary, to control the hemorrhage. 



MENOPAUSE 



Women are scarcely subject to any other disease, which 
exhibits the weakness of the medical profession, so much as the 
menopause. The causes of many diseases are being determined, 
but not that of the menopause, for it is considered as a physio- 
logic funciton, as thougrr any physiologic organ or part of the 
system cannot be sufficiently diseased to prevent its functioning. 

Women are subject to two epochal periods — the commence- 
ment and the cessation of menstruation. The beginning of men- 
struation is often obstructed by anemia and a lack of develop- 
ment ; the ending, or menopause, is marked by pathological 
conditions. 

Medical writers say that the menopause is a physiologic 
function, which is true only when the uterus is in a normal con- 
dition, that is, when a woman approaches the change of life with 
her uterus free from injury, inflammation, discharge and edema. 
A physiologic menopause, then is one free from pain, hemor- 
rhage, infection, and all symptoms that may be attributed to this 
period. 

A pathological menopause will occur when a woman ap- 
proaches the climateric period with either injury ( inflammation, 
displacement, discharge, edema, or organic disease of the uterus. 
Edema of the uterus inhibits perfect expulsion of blood following 
menstruation, which decomposes and causes uterine infection, 
producing all symptoms that appear during the menopause. A 
pathological menopause is characterized by uterine infection, and 
the intra-uterine medication method becomes a specific treatment 
by removing the organic poison from the uterus. At this time 
of life women are apt to regard operations with timidity. For 
such reason, should women be denied this specific, humane and 
painless treatment by physicians who have neglected to inform 
themselves of its efficacy and resources? 

Any woman who is suffering with a pathologic menopause 
and threatened by insanity or some uterine growth, can obtain 
perfect relief by taking this intra-uterine treatment. 

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UTERINE INFECTION 



Among the various kinds of uterine infection is that result- 
ing from a closed uterus. The uterus is subject to inflammation 
at any time of life, and especially whenever the skin becomes in- 
active and the circulatory system perverted. Some women who 
approach the atrophic period of the menopause with inflammation 
are liable to uterine infection from an impervious cervix. There 
are other women who, twenty-five years after the climateric 
period, develop hyperesthesia of the nerves and resulting pre- 
disposition to colds. 

Atrophy of the cervix, with women who have chronic 
metritis, and others whose ovaries have been removed, may have 
the cervix adhesively closed. The deficient anabolism, and fre- 
quent contraction of colds will cause the uterus to acquire in- 
flammation, followed by subinvolution and infection, from lack 
of drainage by an impassable cervix. 

In the case of a woman, age say 80 or over, too old for an 
operation, whose mind is becoming unbalanced from uterine 
infection, the folowing treatment may be given : 

Treatment: Introduce a speculum and cleanse the vaginal 
canal, then attempt to pass a very small uterine sound through 
the cervix ; if it does not enter the cervix, the speculum should be 
removed and a digital examination made to obtain the exact hard- 
ness of the cervix, and the central softness of the original os or 
aperture, after which reinsert the speculum and apply a 10 o/o 
solution of cocaine to the cervix for a few minutes. Now force 
a small-bladed scalpel into what was the original os or aperture 
and cut or enlarge it anteriorly and posteriorly from five-six- 
teenths to one-third of an inch. A small intra-uterine douche 
can then be passed through the cervix and the septic material 
washed out, which should be repeated every forty-eight hours for 
two or three weeks. After cleansing the uterus each time, a 
small piece of absorbent gauze should be inserted into the cervix 
to prevent the os or cut aperture from closing up again. 

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Mrs. Y's menstruation ceased at the age of forty-three, 
which prevented drainage for three years, during which time 
inflammation closed the cervix so rigidly and unyielding that 
the smallest sound could not be inserted. Dehydrating packs 
were inserted against the cervix for eight days, for securing re- 
laxation and removal of edema, when the sound could be passed 
and the cervix sufficiently dilated to introduce my small recur- 
rent flow douche and wash out the septic material. From the 
age of forty-three to forty-six, intra-uterine infection produced 
nervous exhaustion and extensive edema of the feet and legs. 

Washing out her uterus twice a week for a month con- 
trolled inflammation and infection, and the following remedies 
removed the dropsical effusion and restored cell tonicity: 
]? Potassae Acetas Z jj Fl. Ext. or specific med. Apocynum 
Z ss. Distilled hamamelis Z v. Fl. Ext. or specific med. bella- 
donna Gtt x. Sim. Sy. Oz. i. Aqua q. s. Oz iv. Misce. Signa: 
One dram every three hours. Many thousands of women have 
their uterus and ovaries removed when any physician can open 
an impervious cervix, control inflammation and infection by 
practicing this simple method of washing out the uterus? 

The author has cut open the os of the cervical canal in three 
different cases, in order to control uterine infection, two of the 
women being between the ages of thirty and forty. 

Women are subject to uterine infection from many causes, 
but this article will explain only those cases which occur with 
recently married and young girls. Those who have a poor cir- 
culation, and others predisposed to colds, sometimes take a bath 
or go in swimming on the appearing of menstruation. The bath 
being too cool, they are slightly chilled, which suppresses the 
flow and contracts the cervix, the temperature of the uterus 
decomposes and coagulates the retained blood. This condition 
affects women differently, for some are extremely subject to 
inflammation, absorption and infection, while others are almost 
immune from them. 

Maiden women have died suddenly following dancing when 
overheated and exposed to a draft that suppresses menstruation, 
and resulted in acute metritis and infection. Acute metritis 
invites infection and what can a practitioner do to prevent a 
fatal issue if he does not practice intrauterine medication ? Seda- 
tives do not control inflammation, which results from decom- 
posing blood and infection. These cases puzzle the inexperienced 
physician, so that he will resort to opiates which often aggravates 
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that one is justified in a hypodermic use of l /% grain of morphine 
to relieve suffering, until the hot application every four minutes 
of carbolated sulphate of magnesia controls enough inflammation 
to obtain uterine relaxation. The retained septic blood must be 
washed out every twenty-four hours, till the acute stage of 
inflammation has been reduced, afterwards less often until 
recovery. 

When this incident occurs with a maiden woman and the 
hot applications and sedatives do not obtain relief, the attending 
physician should insist on giving the local treatment, in which 
it may be necessary to remove the hymen to save life. The writer 
has had to resort to these measures on several occasions during 
swimming seasons. 



CORPOREAL ENDOMETRITIS 



This disease is a most potent agent in the causation of many 
other abnormal conditions of the pelvic organs, exerting its mor- 
bid influence by extension of inflammatory processes, or by a 
centralizing reflex sympathetic irritation, which perverts many 
vital functions. When neglected it becomes the greatest factor 
for producing many malignant growths, and serious reflex irri- 
tations such as neuralgia, sciatica, cystitis, fibroid tumors, cancers 
and insanity. Symptomatology: The symptoms are arranged 
into two classes — constitutional, manifested by irregularities of 
the nervous system, local and digestive organs. There is more or 
less nervous exhaustion, sleeplessness, headaches during men- 
struation, mental depression and frequently darting pains in the 
spinal cord. The enlarged abdomen and bloated appearance of 
the whole body together with sympathetic action on the mam- 
mary glands, causing burdensome enlargement, sensitiveness, and 
visited with fleeting pains. 

The digestive disturbances are caused by reflex irritation 
and infection from retention of organic poison in the uterus, and 
is the greatest factor of fatigue, enervation and forgetfulness. 

Inflammation of the endometrium once established, show 
little tendency to recovery, and especially from the conventional 
modes of treatments ; hence there have been cases often found that 
begin early and continue through life. The author has met and 
controlled endometritis in women, thirty years after cessation of 
the menopause, which resulted from colds inducing metritis, 
subinvolution with retention of organic poison. 

It is not good philosophy to believe the cessation of men- 
struation at the change of life will control an inflammation and 
a systemic discharge which has been established for years. 
Etiology: A large work could be written of the predisposing 
causes of endometritis, but it would not be worth reading by 
anyone who knows how the most of our nourishment perverts 
the circulation, metabolism and develops local inflammations. 

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The treatment of endometritis by the intrauterine method 
has proved two things. First, that whatever the cause, the local 
inflammation with its irritation and infection must be controlled. 
Second, that nourishment in connection with the irritation and 
infection has perverted the circulation, metabolism and nervous 
system. That the nourishment must be changed in order to re- 
store the perverted functions. This demonstration shows how all 
local inflammation is more or less associated with systemic com- 
plications. Therefore, the treatment of only the local condition 
does not always give perfect satisfaction. Treatment : If prac- 
titioners remember that the nourishment which perverts vital 
functions are the stimulants, such as tea, coffee, sugar, salt and 
all extremely salted foods, he will be able to suggest a change of 
non-stimulants. Order the skin anointed once or twice a week 
with olive oil and dry towel friction every morning. When the 
patient has been taking physics, there is more or less intestinal 
irritation that may be relieved by desert, or tablespoonful of 
the mineral oils two or three times a day, and order the bloated 
condition of the abdomen pinched out every morning and night. 
Prescribe IJ Fl. Ext. Normal tinct. or Specific med. viburnum 
prun. oz. ss. Distil, hamamelis oz. ss. Normal tinct. or Specific 
med. belladonna Gtt vlll. Aqua q. s. oz. iv. Misce. Signa : One 
dram every three hours. Local treatment : Wash out the uterus 
with the mild alkaline antiseptic and peroxid of hydrogen solu- 
tion every third day or twice a week. To finish the treatment, 
insert against the cervix the cotton or wool pack, with string 
attached, saturate in one part of normal tinct. or Specific med. 
elaterium and three parts of glycerin. If the washout causes 
a slight flow, it should cause no alarm ; shows that the inflam- 
mation had produced ulceration, which will cease after a few 
treatments. 

This treatment usually controls endometritis in six to eight 
weeks, but if the patient is afifected with constipation and sallow 
complexion, it may require ten to twelve weeks to restore or 
overcome the systemic perversions or complication. 



CATARRHAL ENDOMETRITIS 

Catarrh is evidenced by a free discharge from any of the 
mucus surfaces of the body. Physiology sets forth with mathe- 
matical certainty the quality and quantities which are thrown off 
by the different parts of the system. The qualities and quantities 
of the acid and alkali secretions which are transuded in the sys- 
tem by osmotic pressure are not definitely stated, but they cer- 
tainly are increased whenever the metabolic processes are dis- 
turbed. Etiology : Certain conditions of the system will de- 
velop catarrh. There are many cases of catarrhal endometritis 
in which catarrh has nothing to do with its origin. The system 
may develop a local metritis which will quickly become chronic 
from such as laceration of the cervix, child bearing, abortion, 
specific inflammation, metritis by instrumental manipulations and 
contracting colds during menstruation. The present nourishment 
has a tendency to cause chemical reaction, imperceptible irrita- 
tion and reflex contraction of the cells, which produce more or 
less hyperesthesia of the nerves, pervert metabolism and the cir- 
culation. Whenever the nerves are affected with even a slight 
hyperesthesia, they are unable to prevent the suppression of the 
secretions by the least atmospheric change. The frequent sup- 
pression of the secretions will eventually require more for their 
restoration; than local inflammations will develop in mucus sur- 
faces and eliminate albuminous exudations. 

This is the way that catarrh is started, and then because 
it becomes quite intractable "physicians say that it is not a 
disease but a condition of the system." It may be said with 
as much sense that one-half of the diseases are only conditions 
of the system. Can catarrh be cured? Some individuals can 
be cured by certain physicians who understand the close rela- 
tionship between the mucus membrane and the skin. Catarrh 
of the stomach and muco-enteritis are not difficult to control 
when one knows how they are developed. The treatment con- 
sists of a diet of rice, milk and other light foods, the skin must 
be anointed once or twice a week with olive oil, and dry towel 

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rubs every morning, allow only one bath a week and give 1J Bis- 
muth subnitrate grs. xv. Fl. Ext. or Specific lobelia Gtt v. 
Gelsemium Gtt v. Aqua q. s. oz. iv. Misce. Signa : One dram 
every two hours ; alternate with Kali Mur 3x, three tablets every 
two hours. Catarrh of the stomach and muco-enteritis yield to 
this treatment. After controlling the muco-enteritis, give enough 
of granular phosphate of sodium to prevent constipation fol- 
lowing the diarrhoea. 

The light diet is not as essential when treating catarrhal 
endometritis, but coffee, sugar, salt and all salty foods should 
be reduced to a minimum. The uterus should be washed out 
twice a week with the mild alkaline and peroxid solutions and 
the dehydrating pack of cotton or wool should be inserted against 
the cervix to remain twenty-four hours. Prescribe If Distil, 
hamamelis oz. ss. Normal tinct. or Specific med. belladonna 
gtt viii. Aqua q. s. oz. v. Misce. Signa: One dram every 
four hours, alternated with Kali Mur 3x, three tablets every four 
hours when the discharge is white, or Kali sulph. 3x, three tablets 
every four hours when the discharge is yellow. Catarrhal endo- 
metritis responds to this treatment when closely followed. 



GONORRHEA 

This disease is generally transmitted by coitus and is char- 
acterized by a mucopurulent discharge, and by painful micturi- 
tion. Resulting complications are vaganitis, inflammation of the 
glands of skene, endocervicitis, cystitis, mastitis, and salpingitis; 
arthritis, endometritis, and endocarditis may occur as complica- 
tions in either sex. 

Gonorrhea is a specific, acute, local inflammation and in- 
fection, which is easily cured before it becomes chronic or 
invades contiguous parts, and some of its complications may be 
overcome. 

The American Medical Association has printed and copy- 
righted a manual setting forth the latest scientific and approved 
methods of treatment of Venereal Diseases, which is presented 
to the members of the medical profession of Illinois with the 
compliments of the State Department of Public Health. The 
recipients of this complimentary manual may expect to find a 
treatment which will cure gonorrhea in its acute stage. They will 
be disappointed, however, for vaginal douches and lying abed 
will not control the local inflammation and infection. The pain 
during the acute stage becomes so much modified in ten or twelve 
days, from douches and confinement, as to mislead the patient, 
and especially the attendant. Douches will not control inflam- 
mation of the glands of skene, urethritis, cervicitis, or endome- 
tritis. These are the fields that gonococci invade and develop 
a specific inflammation which is more difficult to control than 
those occurring from other causes. 

Clinical observation has proved that the gonococci and its 
inflammation may extend and invade contiguous parts in some 
persons in three or four months, in others in six to eighteen 
months, and never in others, to the fallopian tubes. In all these 
periods there is sufficient time to perfect a cure before it de- 
velops into a surgical condition. 

The nourishment of the people has a tendency to diminish 
elimination, and break the ratio of the acid and alkali secretions, 

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which make it more difficult to control specific inflammation. 
The gonorrheal exudations always show deficiencies of the blood, 
and whenever the indicated Schuessler cell salt is supplied the 
discharge ceases and the disease terminates rapidly. 

Treatment: Gonorrhea in its acute stage responds readily 
to a direct antispasmodic, and modifying urine medication, soon 
after its contraction by the following prescription : 1$ Bomidum 
potassi 3ii. Fl. Ext. or Specific med. Gelsemium 5j. Fl. Ext. 
or Specific med. Macrotys 3j. Aqua q. s. oz. iv. M. Signa: 
One dram every half hour for six doses when there is much 
suffering, then every two hours. With a clear, white discharge, 
give Kali Mur 3x, three tablets every three hours. If the 
exudation is yellow, give Kali Sulph. 3x, three tablets every three 
hours in connection with the above prescription. When coffee, 
salt and meat are reduced to a minimum, this treatment has 
controlled the discharge in ten or twelve days. 

Vaginal douches and internal medication will not control 
gonorrheal inflammation and infection which has invaded the 
cervical canal and the endometrium. To control these invasions 
the uterus must be washed out every forty-eight hours for two 
or three weeks. When the above-mentioned foods are reduced, 
and the uterus treated as advised, the internal medication will con- 
trol the specific urethritis. When this disease has been standing 
several months or a year or two, it is because intra-uterine medi- 
cation has not been employed. In such cases wash out the uterus 
with the alkaline and peroxid solutions, and follow it immediately 
with a solution of iron sulphate (copperas) one or two grains to 
the ounce, which controls the acute or chronic endometritis. 
After two or three treatments of washing out the uterus, grasp 
a pledget of cotton in the point of the uterine forceps, the size 
of small marble; dip it into a solution of Campho-Penique and 
swab the cervical canal, then immediately with MonsePs solution 
of iron. This cures either acute or chronic cervicitis by a few 
treatments. 



SCIATICA. 

Gynecologists have given little or no recognition to reflex 
sciatica. There is a good reason for this neglect because the 
medical profession has never universally practiced intra-uterine 
medication for curing disorders of the uterus, thus neglecting to 
grasp the opportunity to observe reflex uterine irritations caused 
from inflammations. 

Dalton, in his work on Human Physiology, says: "The 
nervous system associates the different parts of the body in such 
a manner that stimulus applied to one organ may excite activity 
in another." Oh, for a mind capable of recognizing the unsolved 
problems of the human system hidden by the mysteries of reflex 
action ! 

Etiology. — The causes which give rise to sciatica may be 
divided into congestive, inflammatory, mechanical and reflex. 

First: It has been caused from the extension of inflamma- 
tory rheumatism from a direct injury, such as a blow, kick or 
bruise, exposure of the limb to a draught of cold air for a long 
time, sitting on a cold or damp seat following physical exertion, 
from impaired capillary circulation, and straining of the nerve. 

Second : The mechanical causes are those which make more 
or less of a steady pressure on the sciatic nerve, as cushioned 
seats of carriages, cushioned and hollow seated rockers, saddles, 
mower and reaper seats, and also misfitting artificial limbs. 

Third: The failure, occasionally, to cure sciatica makes it 
evident that it does occur from various reflex actions. 

Among those observed are, irritation of the intestines, which 
may have resulted from constipation, diarrhea, catarrhal ulcera- 
tion, adhesion, pressure from growths, rectal fissures and fistula, 
and contracted strictures. 

Malarial and other poisons derange the functions of the 
body and especially provoke congestions, and as such excite 
neuralgia. It may follow concussion and other injuries of the 
spine and it frequently occurs from a blennorrhagic rheumatism, 
cervical and corporeal endometritis, salpingitis or pelvic cellulitis. 

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A successful treatment of sciatica depends on our ability to 
observe its cause and apply a direct treatment. It is not my 
intention to write a general treatment for sciatica because I be- 
lieve that most practitioners are able to successfully treat this 
disease with the possible exception of one feature of it which 
arises from reflex irritation and which is caused from inflamma- 
tion of the female generative organs. 

There is a peculiarity about sciatica which differs from other 
diseases. In many diseases we are able to recognize their causes 
and apply a treatment which usually proves successful; but not 
so with this disease, because we have been in the habit of start- 
ing the treatment from a nosological standpoint. This may 
succeed, but it often fails. Other treatments are then tried and 
the one which proves successful is quite likely to point to the 
cause. For instance, take a case in which the majority of the 
symptoms point to congestion of the limb and nerve, caused from 
exposure. In this condition I have tried the indicated sedatives, 
anodynes and other favorite remedies combined with hypodermic 
injections of atropia, cocaine and sulphate of morphia. I have 
also tried physics, which aggravate the pain. The bowels are 
then flushed every second day, which controls intestinal irrita- 
tion, resulting in marked relief. The relief obtained indicates 
that the cause is reflex intestinal irritation. 

During twenty-five years of practice I have treated eight 
males and fourteen females for sciatica. The males and three 
of the females recovered from such treatment, which corrcted 
the circulation and controlled congestion and inflammation of the 
sciatic nerve and restored a normal condition to the bowels. The 
other eleven cases were caused by reflex intrautrine irritation. 
Seven of the eleven cases resulted from chronic corporeal endo- 
metritis, two from cervical endometritis, one from catarrhal sal- 
pingitis — the latter was complicated with intestinal irritation — and 
one from gonorrheal salpingitis. Curettage had been performed 
on five of the seven women, and three of the five had had 
trachelorrhaphy performed, which resulted in relief for three or 
four weeks. These five women came for treatment at two, six, 
ten and eighteen months after leaving the hospitals. The average 
duration of the eleven cases was from five months to three years. 
A little inquiry brought to light that these women suffered from 
an indirect treatment. I learned that they had taken different 
sedatives and many special remedies ; also several different kinds 
of hypodermic injections. Irritants had been used locally — blis- 



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ters, solutions of salicylic acid, muriate of ammonia, combination 
liniments, and vinegar applied with a hot iron. 

In enumerating the treatment which these women endured, 
it is not for the purpose of criticizing it, but to show how in- 
tractable a disease may prove to be from any treatment, when- 
ever we fail to observe its cause. As these cases were caused 
from reflex intrauterine irritation the treatment was not direct. 

When these women called they were thoroughly examined for 
spinal irritation ; the sciatic nerve for congestion or inflammation, 
pressure made over the whole nerve for sensitive spots, and deep 
pressure was made on the bowels for the presence or absence of 
hyperesthesia, and the color of the abdomen compared with the 
complexion of other parts of the body. Then a vaginal speculum 
was used and the uterus examined to ascertain its position, size, 
depth, hyperesthesia, or injury. The examination exhibited im- 
perfect involution present in the eleven women, and retroflexion 
was present in two cases. All were affected with chronic endo- 
metritis and enlargement. The depth of the uterus varied from 
three and a quarter to four and one-half inches ; the endometrium 
was very sensitive and bled easily. My treatment consisted of 
washing out the uterus every third day by the interrupted 
stream with a fifteen to a fifty per cent solution of peroxide, al- 
ternating every other syringeful with a three to five per cent 
solution of listerine or any other good antiseptic of similar 
strength. One to two thousand solution of bichloride of mercury 
was alternated with peroxide in some of the cases. 

While washing out the uterus in all of these cases the typical 
effervescing action characteristic of peroxide, whenever it is 
mixed with any septic material, was observed. To finish each 
local treatment the dehydrating pack of wool or cotton saturated 
with the following mixture was inserted against the cervix and 
removed after thirty to forty hours: 

If Glycerine 3 i 

Elaterium gr. ss 

Every woman experienced great relief as soon as the irri- 
tating substance was removed from the uterus. The number of 
treatments necessary to cause recovery varied from ten ,to 
twenty. The condition of the fallopian tubes of the patient who 
had gonorrhceal salpingitis was such as to necessitate an opera- 
tion. I prescribed an alternative while washing out the uterus, 
the only direct treatment that could be applied, and this resulted 
in complete recovery. 



PHLEGMASIA DOLENS 

Phlegmasia dolens is one of those diseases of which the true 
cause has not been satisfactorily known. An inspection of the 
conflicting opinions regarding it is enough to convince any one 
that all the problems of the system have not been solved. Mr. 
White, of Manchester, in 1784, considered it to be caused by an 
obstruction or some morbid condition of the lymphatic vessels 
and glands of the parts attacked. In 1817 Dr. Davis made an 
autopsy and found evidence of extensive inflammation of the 
veins. In 1829 Dr. Lee succeeded in tracing the inflammation 
into the uterine branches of the hypogastric veins, and he gave it 
the name of crurial phlebitis. Dr. Mackenzie came to the con- 
clusion, resulting from a series of experiments, that phlegmasia 
dolens is due to a vitiated condition of the blood, and that the 
venous inflammation is the effect of the original disease. Dr. 
King's view is, that the disease is primarily an affection of the 
lymphatics, and that the venous manifestation is merely a second- 
ary result of the original malady. 

Having had a vast experience in washing out the uterus, it 
has enabled me to make numerous observations, and I consider 
parturition as a physiological solution of continuity because it is 
conceded that the separation of the placenta and uterus is a local 
injury, as evidenced by the septic inoculation of these wounds, 
resulting in puerperal fever. 

Doctors Andral and Gavarret found that the fibrin of the 
blood is diminished during the first six months of pregnancy, but 
subsequently becomes augmented even to a considerable amount 
above the usual physiological portion, assuming the characteris- 
tics of inflammatory blood. This, with other incidents and con- 
ditions that have caused the disease, ought to make it apparent to 
any one that it is the condition of the blood which causes phleg- 
masia dolens. For instance, although it more commonly follows 
confinement, it is by no means confined to that period. It has been 
observed among those whose menstrual discharge has been sud- 
denly suspended or who have had diseases of the uterine organs, 

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as malignant growths, ulcerations of the cervix and endometrium. 
It has occurred in males, following dysentery diarrhoea with 
ulcerated intestines, cancer of the rectum, amputation of a limb, 
and external injuries. It is plain to be seen that any of these 
conditions could have affected the blood by absorption. Various 
exciting causes have been named, the most common among which 
are cold, injuries by pressure to the lymphatic glands, veins and 
nerves. 

Observation has convinced me that venous obstruction by 
the occiput of the child should be eliminated as a cause of this 
disease, because every accoucheur who enjoys a large obstetrical 
practice has seen many women in whom the pelvic pressure had 
caused the veins of the labium and thigh to be extensively en- 
gorged, and the veins below the knee so distended as to burst, 
resulting in serious hemorrhage, and yet the obstruction and 
engorgement did not result in phlegmasia dolens. It should be 
remembered that in cases where it does occur the superficial veins 
of the labium, thigh and leg never are engorged, but a few days 
following the onset the femoral and internal saphenous veins 
become distended. 

On or about December 1, 1896, Mrs. L. M. became ill. She 
called her physician, who prescribed medicines several times with- 
out obtaining any benefit. Continuing to grow worse for about 
three weeks, she became confined to her bed. At this time re- 
current pains began and the family physician was called. He 
delivered her of a four-months' foetus which to all appearances 
had been dead for twenty days. The lochia was offensive and 
ceased to flow at the end of a week ; although receiving medicine 
and vaginal douches that were ordered, there was still no im- 
provement. On the ninth day after the delivery of the foetus 
she had a chill, followed by a fever ; then pain began in the region 
of the uterus, groin and thigh. In a short time the calf of the 
leg became enlarged, hard and painful, followed by the swelling 
of the whole limb. The attending and consulting physicians 
diagnosed her case as rheumatism and treated her for two months 
with very little improvement. They must have become dis- 
couraged, as they ceased calling without being discharged. 

These are the statements as given by Mrs. L. M. when I 
was called. An examination exhibited the left limb affected, a 
temperature of 99 3-5, pulse 100, skin moist. The whole limb 
was considerably swollen, the skin was tense, white, and sensi- 
tive to touch; its surface cold and clammy. The femoral and 
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size of half an inch. The presence of an offensive discharge 
caused me to inquire how long she had noticed it. She answered : 
"Ever since the foetus was delivered." A vaginal examination 
showed subinvolution and endometritis. As she had passed 
through the inflammatory state and was not in any immediate 
danger, yet suffering with pains and weakness, I had resolved 
to merely wash out her uterus and not prescribe internal medica- 
tion, in order to observe, if possible, the true cause which pro- 
duced the condition of the limb. 

Assuming charge of this case on February 21, 1897, I began 
washing out her uterus every forty-eight hours with peroxide and 
other mild antiseptics. All the pain ceased after the third local 
treatment, the limb began to diminish and soften, hyperesthesia 
became lessened, the capillaries began to refill, and even the blood 
in the femoral and saphenous veins commenced to disintegrate 
and be removed. With all these improvements apparent at the 
end of eight days, in order to more quickly restore her weakened 
limb to its normal strength, I continued the intra-uterine medica- 
tion for twenty days and had her whole limb bandaged every- 
day with flannel after it had been thoroughly rubbed with a solu- 
tion of iodide of ammonia. This woman recovered during the 
twenty days that she was treated by the intra-uterine medication, 
together with bandaging, and without therapeutics. 

It must be conceded by all that in this case of phlegmasia 
dolens its cause can be attributed only to a vitiated condition of 
the blood as the result of absorption from the decomposing foetal 
environment. The weight and size of a four-months' foetus 
could not have injured the lymphatics nor obstructed the venous 
circulation. The local injury caused by the separation of the 
placenta and uterus ought not to be ascribed as the cause of the 
disease, for it occurs at every delivery, and the disease happens 
only occasionally. 

I was acquainted with this woman, who gave birth to eleven 
or twelve children, for ten years preceding her spontaneous abor- 
tion which resulted in phlegmasia dolens, and had treated her on 
several occasions for constipation and chronic catarrh of the 
bowels. A bloated condition and hyperesthesia of the abdomen 
were always present, with other evidences of a contaminated 
state of her blood. 

Experience obtained from washing out the uterus gives a 
more important conception of the influence that the bowels exert 
over the blood, lymphatics, uterus and pelvic tissues in general. 
It is my observation that if pack is unbearable the following pack 



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should be substituted. Excite the action of the skin over the 
abdomen by means of friction, then prepare and apply the follow- 
ing prescription: Dissolve from one to one and a half drachm 
of the bichloride of mercury in six ounces of hot water, add two 
ounces of alcohol to increase its stimulating effect, saturate a 
flannel of single fold in this solution of sufficient size to cover as 
much of the abdomen as may be deemed necessary to procure 
the absorption of a sufficient amount of the medicine to fulfil the 
indication, sprinkle over the saturated flannel two or more 
drachms of tincture of opium and apply it to the skin. Then 
take pulverized ginger, cinnamon, cloves and pimento each two 
drachms, water two pints, steep these together under cover for a 
few minutes and dip a two-ply flannel in this hot aromatic in- 
fusion large enough to cover the one already applied, cover the 
whole with oiled silk which should extend an inch or two over 
the edges of the flannel and apply a broad, close fitting bandage 
and repeat the application every fifteen to twenty hours. By 
these dermic medications we better meet the conditions that have 
already and are rapidly ensuing after parturition. The bichloride 
is sufficiently absorbed, and passing into the circulation antago- 
nizes the septic material that is being absorbed by the contused 
lymphatic vessels. The bandage prevents evaporation, increases 
absorption, acts as a stimulating astringent, supports a relaxed 
abdominal wall and a weakened peritoneum. 

The third indication is to eliminate from the system as much 
as possible. There are four great emunctories, the lungs, skin, 
kidneys and bowels, and since practicing intra-uterine medication 
for puerperal fever I have added the uterus and vagina as the 
fifth great eliminator of the system during this fever. 

During parturition there may occur one or more injuries to 
the vagina and uterus that are scarcely ever observed. These in- 
juries result in congestion and inflammation, retarding involution 
and the lochia requiring intra-uterine injections to restore the 
injuries and eliminate the retained lochia, which, if allowed to 
remain, will, within three to five days, form into an organizable 
exudation of a glutinous fungoid substance and is of such a 
tenacious nature that it may be necessary to curette the uterus in 
order to remove it. 

What I like better is a flat uterine applicator armed with 
absorbent cotten, dipped into campho-phenique, passed into the 
uterine cavity and by manipulations the tenacious substance is 
broken up and disintegrated. The application may be repeated 
several times at every third treatment every seventy-two hours, 



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followed by intra-uterine injections of a fifty per cent solution 
of hydrogen peroxide and the treatment finished with any good 
antiseptic properly diluted. This treatment is more efficacious 
than curetting and without the danger of perforating the uterus 
or additional shock to the system. The campho-phenique part 
of the treatment may be needed three to four times three days 
apart, but the intra-uterine medication should be continued every 
second day for a while, using the elaterium and glycerine pack 
against the os. 

Whenever these injections are practiced or continued until 
the uterus is restored to its normal condition and all septic ma- 
terial eliminated from the pelvic organs there will occur no puer- 
peral insanity during the puerperal state, from delivery to the 
cessation of the lochia. 

Internal medication should be administered according to the 
indications, whichever form may be present, the inflammatory or 
infectious. In the inflammatory form I would use some of the 
following well-known remedies: veratrum viride, aconite, gelse- 
mium, belladonna, rhus tox, bryonia, potass, bromide, salicylic 
acid made from oil of wintergreen, salicylate of sodium, Phyto- 
lacca and diaphoretic or Dover's powders. Patients who exhibit 
a sallow and swarthy complexion indicative of retained fecal 
matter, with nausea frequently present should receive aqua calcis 
or calcium sulphide in large doses several times daily. The latter 
remedy has a decided influence against early effusion and sup- 
puration, thus securing time for better results from other 
remedies. 

Every increase of the temperature of the body is associated 
with rapid tissue-waste, with enfeebled heart-action and with 
exhaustion of the nerve centers. The recognition of the de- 
leterious effects of high temperatures has made the antipyretic 
remedies popular, in place of the old-time cardiac sedatives. 

As an internal antipyretic agent quinine is an excellent 
remedy and especially in the remitting forms of fever, it may 
be administered in five grain doses at intervals of four to five 
hours. Given thus in medium doses, it moderates the fever, 
diminishes sweating, and in most patients lessens gastric and in- 
testinal disturbances. In continued fevers it should be given in 
a single dose large enough to procure a distinct remission. Thus 
by ameliorating the febrile symptoms, if only for a few hours' 
duration, a retardation of the destructive processes is ac- 
complished. 



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Sodium salicylate posseses antipyretic properties, though in 
a less degree than quinia. It is, however, rapidly absorbed, re- 
lieving pain and nervous irritation and circulates through all the 
parenchymatous organs, and finally is discharged unchanged in 
the urine. 

Salicylic acid made from the oil of wintergreen, administered 
in capsules of seven or eight grains when indicated by inflamma- 
tion and pain, scarcely ever fail to secure beneficial results. 
While the writer believes in prescribing single remedies to meet 
specific indications, yet, should they fail, with quinia and salicylic 
acid, I would give Warburg's tincture to patients whose stomach 
will tolerate it. 

Whenever the typhoid or infectious symptoms predominate, 
the bowels should be immediately evacuated and the uterus 
washed out, first for its cleansing, and secondly for completing 
the diagnosis. The intra-uterine injection should be performed 
according to the instructions in this work given in another chapter, 
with peroxide of hydrogen and followed with a solution of 
bichloride of mercury once every twenty-four hours, at first in 
the usual proportion of 1 :2000 ; after the third treatment it 
should be reduced to 1 :3000. In these infectious cases where 
the symptoms plainly indicate an injury to the peritoneum, en- 
dometrium or lymphatic vessels the bichloride and aromatic ex- 
ternal pack act magically. With retained particles of placenta 
or the lochia intra-uterine injections will remove all the disturb- 
ing element that is loosened, and frequent repetition of the wash- 
ing out clears the uterus of all detritus before it attains the stage 
of decomposition. Writers have objected to the frequent use of 
the vaginal speculum following parturition, but with experience, 
care of inserting, the parturient will realize no suffering com- 
parable with manual manipulations. The following named anti- 
septics have been used in puerperal fever and when administered 
according to their specific indication usually obtain fair results : 
Echinacea angust, potass, chlorate, sodium sulphite, sulpho- 
carbolate zinc, corbo vegetabilis, baptisia, hydrochloric, boric, 
carbolic and tannic acids, creosote, alcohol, aqua chlorinii and 
salol. In these infectious cases the three chlorides have proved 
highly serviceable. 



SYPHILIS. 

There is no disease known, which exhibits such a lack of 
knowledge, and offers such diagnostic weakness of the medical 
profession, as syphilis. The practitioner is a novice, who is 
unable to observe that syphilis is not an original disease, but at 
its contraction, it becomes a complication of the following perver- 
sions: Cell ptosis, dimnished capillaries, indigestion, acidosis, 
hyperalkalinity, metabolism, anemic blood and predisposition to 
cold. These perversions are all present in tuberculosis, malaria, 
scarlet fever, malignant tumors, jaundice, leprosy, beri beri, 
pellagra, and alcohomism and it has been found that these are 
the diseases which respond to the positive reaction of the Was- 
sermann test. This shows that in certain conditions, the secre- 
tions, not known, aid and interfere with the Wassermann reac- 
tion, which proves it unreliable. 

The spirochaeta pallida produces an irritant state of the 
blood, which affects the glands and membranes and intensifies all 
of the perversions. If the presence of the spirochaeta in the 
blood was the only preventive of a cure, then their destruction 
would be the immediate end of all treatment. 

Treatment : The treatment must inhibit the stimulant foods, 
which produce the perversions and deficiencies in the blood, that 
cannot be improved as long as they are allowed. Anoint the 
skin once a week and apply dry towel rubbings every morning; 
prescribe for a month the following remedies : 1$ Calcarea fluor 
ix. Grs. x. Fl. Ext. or Specific med. Belladonna Gtts. viii., Distil, 
Hamamelis oz. i. Aqua q. s. oz. iv. M, Sig: One dram every 
three hours. 

Then change the treatment to: 

$ Potassii iodid 3ii. Fl. Ext. or Specific med. Iris 3iii. Fl. 
Ext. or Specific med. Podophyllum Gtts. xx. Aro. Sy. Cascara 
oz i. Aqua q. s. oz. iv. M. Sig : One dram every four hours. 
Four tablets of Kali mur 3x. alternated or given every four 
hours, which restores this cell salt deficiency in the blood. 

Syphilis yields to any treatment, which overcomes the orig- 
inal functional perversions, that the individual had at the time he 
contracted it. 

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CANCER OF THE UTERUS. 

This is the disease that has shortened the lives of many 
wives and mothers, during and following the menopause, simply 
because physicians have never given due consideration to par- 
ticipating complications. The physician who knows how to 
overcome complications, has the proper instruments, and a work- 
able knowledge of intra-uterine medication is qualified to cure 
cancer of the uterus. We invite anyone to disprove that stimu- 
lant foods do not cause cell ptosis and diminished capillaries, 
which are the reparable forces of the system. Cancer of Jthe 
uterus is absorbable, but not with weak cells and a perverted 
circulation. Diagnosis of uterine cancer: — If the uterus is af- 
fected with cancer, certain conditions must be determined: i. e,, 
enlargement, thickening of the anterior and posterior walls ; en- 
largement, hard and nodular cervix to the touch, and fixed ; 
presence or absence of a sanious exudation. If there is no dis- 
charge, use the sound to determine depth, location, weight, sensi- 
tiveness, secreting or nonsecreting metritis. 

General Condition : Determine the condition of the tongue, 
eyes, temperature, enervation, by pinching the flesh, to ascertain 
hyperesthesia of the nerves. White skin means capillary destruc- 
tion ; cyanotic sallow complexion indicates cell paresis and dimin- 
ished elimination ; plethora or marasmus shows perverted meta- 
bolism; exudations, deficiencies of the blood; fatigue, infection 
by autointoxication or at some of the apertures of the body, or 
growths ; enlargement of the glands in the groin. Examine the 
tongue and urine for acidosis or alkalinity of the secretions. This 
is important for those affected with growths are liable to alkalinity 
of the urine and to achylia, which must be corrected with the 
dilute hydrochloric acid, &gg and milk prescription, as given else- 
where in this work. To treat successfully different kinds of 
cancer of the uterus the physician should be familiar with in- 
trauterine medication. Some think that the frequent use of the 
vaginal speculum is unnecessary and meddlesome, but they have 
never known the advantages of the interuterine method for con- 

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trolling infection, removing broken-down tissue and obtaining 
rapid absorption by the daily use of the speculum with the indi- 
cated medications. 

The prevailing opinion is that cancer must be excised or 
destroyed with caustics, but I have found that they can be re- 
moved by absorption. Internal growths are much more absorb- 
able than those situated externally; and inflammations which ac- 
company cancers and other uterine growths are easily overcome 
by injections and absorbing applications. The author has success- 
fully treated several uterine and face cancers and believes that his 
method may be of interest. 

Treatment: Case one, in March, 1911, Mrs. B., aged 42, of 
Indiana, was affected with a scirrhus cancer of the uterus which 
had been discharging a sanious exudation for six months ; uterus 
fixed and enlarged, cervix-uteri hard, nodular and open, break- 
ing down of tissue was attended with the cancerous odor. Her 
participating complication exhibited the following food mark- 
ings ; cell ptosis, diminished capillaries, straw-colored complexion, 
dynamic rate of the heart increased to ninety pulsations, specific 
gravity of the urine 1008, and constipation due to the excessive 
use of salt, sugar and coffee. The uterus was washed out every 
second day with a solution of peroxide of hydrogen alternated 
with the alkaline solution; followed with a solution of ferrous 
sulphate (green vitriol) 2 to 5 grs. to the ounce, the strength in- 
creased as the uterus could tolerate it. 

A two-ply piece of absorbent gauze, one-half inch wide and 
six inches long, with a string at the ends, was saturated in the 
iron solution and with a sound, pushed into the cavity of the 
uterus, to remain for 48 hours. A cotton or wool pledget was 
wetted with the following absorbent solution : 1$ Sulphate of 
magnesia oz. i. Fl. Ext. or Specific med. oz. i. 33 1/3% phenol 
3 ss. Aqua q. s. oz. iv. and inserted against the cervix to remain 
48 hours. This local treatment was repeated every second day 
for two months and the ratio of the acid secretion restored by: 
R Dilute hydrochloric acid oz iss Aqua q. s. oz. iii. M. Signa : 
One dram with a beaten up egg and glass of milk before the 
morning and every meals. Such stimulating foods as coffee, 
sugar and salt and those cured with the latter were prescribed. 

Internal Medication: 1$ Merrell's Fl. Ext. or Specific 
taraxacum oz. ss. Echinacea oz. ss. Glycerin oz. ss. Aqua q. s. 
iv. M. Sig: One dram every three hours. One soap and water 
bath, followed with one of carbolated magnesia once a week, 
the body anointed with olive oil, and dry crash-towel rubs every 



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morning ordered She was instructed how to control colitis and 
its infection with a home treatment, as follows : Every morning 
take the fountain syringe containing a pint of warm carbolated 
magnesia solution and after evacuating the bowels, one half of 
the solution was thrown into the rectum, the hips were elevated 
and it passed off, then the other half was introduced and dis- 
charged. The colitis was overcome during the two months' 
treatment. 

In thus treating uterine cancer it was necessary in order to 
assist absorption to proscribe the stimulating foods which pro- 
duced cell ptosis, and emptied and diminished the capillaries. 

The baths, oiling and dry-rubs restored the metabolic proc- 
esses, strengthened the cells, and renewed and refilled the capil- 
laries ; the local treatment controlled inflammation, infection, re- 
moved septic substances and increased absorption. 

Case Two: Mrs. P., age 48, of Chicago, 111., who had a 
continuous uterine hemorrhage for twelve months, which so 
weakened her that she was unable to walk a block, developed a 
malignant Epithelioma of the uterus. I submitted a specimem 
of the growth for examination to the Chicago Laboratory at 25 
East Washington Street, Chicago, 111., and received their follow- 
ing report : 

CHICAGO LABORATORY. 
No. 125558. 

The Specimen of Tissue (uterus). 

From Mrs. Posack, age 48, received December 18th, 1920, 
shown on examination: Tissue shows malignant Epithelioma. 

Dr. Chas. Woodward — Chicago Laboratory. 

The following conditions were noted after a thorough ex- 
amination: The cervix and entire body of the uterus were in- 
volved by the growth. The uterus was very large, hard and im- 
movable ; cervix breaking down, and sloughing off, with the char- 
acteristic decaying odor ; intense backache ; pulse 92, temperature 
97 degrees Fah., the characteristic sallow complexion, accom- 
panied with alkalinity of the secretions, and urine and deficient 
oxidation. The treatment was begun November 25, 1920, by 
washing out the uterus with the alkaline and peroxid solutions, 
followed by a solution of iron sulphate (copperas). The growth 
had so diminished the uterine cavity, that it was difficult to insert 
a cotton pledget, size of a pea, wetted in a solution of the iron, 
more than two inches ; with a string attached. An absorbent solu- 
tion of 1^ Sulphate magnesia oz. i. Merrell's Fl. Ext. Phytolacca 



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oz. i. 95% Phenol Gtt. xv. Aqua bulliens q. s. oz. iv. A pledget 
of cotton, nearly the size of an egg, with string attached, was 
wetted in this solution and inserted against the cervix every 
day, for three weeks; after which the local treatment was re- 
peated every 48 hours. Oxidation and the ratio of the secretions 
were restored by I£ Dilute hydrochloric acid oz. iss. Aqua oz. 
iss. M. Sig: One dram was added to a beaten up egg and seven 
ounces of milk. Taken before the morning and evening meals. 
Tea, coffee, sugar, salt and salty foods were proscribed; vegeta- 
bles, cereals, milk, oranges and other acid fruits were suggested. 
Internal medication consisted of Merrell's Fl. Ext. Phytolacca 
oz. ss. Specific med. Taraxacum oz. ss. Specific Med. Echinacea 
oz. ss. Simple Sy. oz. i. Aqua q. s. oz. iv. M. Sig : One dram 
after meals. 

At the expiration of two months' treatment, this woman is 
doing her housework, sleeps well, has a good appetite, complexion 
cleared and backache only for a short time after the local treat- 
ment. The local treatment has so reduced the size and hardness 
of the uterus, that its cavity is nearly of normal size which 
makes it easier to insert larger absorbent pledgets of iron. 

In publishing the treatment of this case of cancer of the 
uterus, I do not assert that it is cured, but I have not the least 
doubt of her recovery from another month's treatment. 



ABORTION. 

The text books describe a variety of methods for inducing 
abortion in essential cases, and while mentioning some of the 
methods in use for rupturing the ovum and its expulsion, I shall 
not offer any new plan for inducing feticide, but shall present a 
treatment after it has been induced, which experience has shown 
will not only save life, but will prevent secondary effects. 

The great mortality resulting from induced abortion, either 
primarily or secondarily, is sufficient evidence that the subsequent 
treatment in vogue has never fully met the requirements of such 
varied conditions as arise at its different stages. A few primary 
and secondary effects may be given to show that the treatment 
commonly practiced has never proved satisfactory. 

1. The expulsion of the fetal shell will not prevent infection 
occurring from retained secudines, shreds and decomposing 
blood. 

2. Not being able to control or prevent decomposition or 
infection, by the old treatment, perfect involution was impossible 
in many cases. 

3. Subinvolution frequently results in acute inflammation 
following a recent abortion and terminates in endometritis, ac- 
companied by a catarrhal uterine exudation, a secondary conditiou 
not easily remedied. 

4. Laceration of the cervix often occurs during abortion 
between the sixteenth and twenty-seventh weeks of gestation. 
Trachelorraphy performed weeks or months after the injury will 
restore the cervix but not the effects of inflammation, endome- 
tritis, salpingitis, degenerated ovaries and enervation. 

5. Reflex sciatica frequently arises from inflammation and 
intra-uterine irritation following abortions. 

6. The Orificial surgeons, together with intra-uterine medi- 
cation, present sufficient evidence, that the many cases of in- 
sanity are caused by intra-uterine irritation as the result of instru- 
mental manipulations in early utero-gestation. Frequent intra- 
uterine injections would have controlled the irritation and in- 
sanity. 

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There are several reasons for the great mortality resulting 
from abortion: One is the wrong conception of the statutory 
restrictions against producing feticide. It ought to be apparent 
to those who will read the statutes that the laws are for the pur- 
pose of preventing the destruction of life ; and these restrictions 
were never intended to prohibit the physician from becoming 
sufficiently able to save life, and especially in all accidental and 
unavoidable criminal cases. In every community, there are un- 
scrupulous physicians who will induce abortion and advise the 
patient to call another physician, that is, if she needs any assist- 
ance, thus throwing the whole responsibility of her illness and 
probably her life on an innocent person. These are the unavoid- 
able criminal cases, which every physician meets during his pro- 
fessional career, and if he is not able to treat them successfully, 
he is not properly qualified to induce and manage cases of 
premature delivery or justifiable abortion. 

Another reason is the universal belief by the laity and physi- 
cians, that abortion is attended with the least danger at and after 
the expiration of twelve weeks. The intra-uterine method has 
proved conclusively that justifiable abortion at four, five and six 
weeks, following the last normal menstruation, is attended with 
less danger, illness, infection, subinvolution and other secondary 
effects. 

Another reason for the great mortality is the neglect of 
washing out the uterus every twenty-four hours, after it is in- 
duced, for three days, then every forty-eight hours to the expira- 
tion of twelve or fourteen days. Again neglecting to apply 
properly the intra-uterine method with the small recurrent douche 
and half ounce syringe, just because the old elevated douche or 
continuous stream method frequently produced uterine colic. 

Another reason is the shock to the system, and injury to the 
uterus by curettement, after a woman has suffered severe pain 
from inflammation and infection for ten or twelve days. The 
proper time to curette the uterus during and following abortion 
is within three or four days at the farthest, after the flow begins, 
with a half spiral curette and finish with a dull one. 

Following the curettage the uterus should be washed out 
with the alkaline solution and alternated with a solution of peroxid 
hydrogen, continue with If Sulphate of magnesia 3iss. 95% 
phenol Gtt. x. Aqua q. s. oz. viii. after which a hot water bag 
should be applied to the abdomen for several hours. 

It is not necessary to give a disquisition on generation and 
embryology; but the practice of intra-uterine medication by the 



INTRA-UTERINE MEDICATION 69 

interrupted stream method has settled some of its disputable 
points, with which the physician should be familiar if he wishes 
to comprehend the subject of abortion. 

To illustrate : During coition the fimbria, fibers and muscles 
compress the ovaries and tubes against the sides of the uterus; 
the round ligament contracts and tilts the uterus fundus toward 
the sacrum to conform to the vaginal axis, and when the organism 
(not possessed by all women) is complete, the ovule is thrown 
into the uterine cavity in a tenacious, elastic, semi-fluid condition 
but is never separated from its origin. To further : As a ball is 
thrown from the hand, yet holding on to the twine, so the ovule 
is never completely separated from the tubes at the ostium in- 
ternum; the same stimulating excitement shortens and dilates 
the cervix for receiving the zoosperm which comes in contact 
with the ovule in the cervix and impregnate it. With copulation 
finished, immediately or shortly thereafter a relaxation and di- 
vergence of the fimbria, tubes and ovaries commence to drag 
the impregnated ovule back into the uterus and oviduct as they 
assume their normal position. 

Washing out the uterus for twelve consecutive days following 
a fruitful coition has proved beyond a doubt that fecundation of 
the impregnated ovule never occurs in the uterine cavity ; but by 
washing out the uterus on the twelfth day, immediately there- 
after a bright scarlet flow would commence, showing that the ovum 
had been ruptured ; but, unlike the menstrual flux which termi- 
nates in the usual number of days, will continue to flow for weeks 
and in some even months, unless interrupted by treatment, pre- 
senting positive evidence of the absence of the impregnated ovule 
from the uterine cavity for twelve to fourteen days following a 
fruitful coitus. 

Fecundation is the temporary fixation of the impregnated 
ovule which takes place at the ovary to complete germination. 
What I wish to convey is that fecundation, called germination, 
never occurs in the uterus, and in the fallopian tubes, only when 
obstructed by inflammation or adhesions; and in the abdominal 
cavity when the ovule fails to enter the tube during its migration 
to the uterus. 

From the eighth to the twelfth week the placenta is the all- 
important element as regards abortion. In many cases it pro- 
duces serious hemorrhage because its size is large enough to excite 
determination of blood with relaxation of the arterial vessels, and 
yet too small to receive sufficient pressure to close the vessels and 
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became a popular time for inducing abortion is because the size 
of the placenta is large enough to excite contractions for its expul- 
sion in a majority of cases without artificial assistance. 

Abortion occurring at five and six weeks will always cause 
secondary effects unless the uterus is washed out every twenty- 
four hours for three days, then every forty-eight hours for twelve 
to fifteen days, or at least until the characteristic oxidizable sub- 
stances cease returning from the uterus. 

Abortion may be spontaneous, accidental, or designed and may 
occur at any time prior to the twenty- seventh week ; but all spon- 
taneous cases are more likely to occur at a time when the physi- 
ologic action of the system attempts to repeat the menstrual period. 
Intra-uterine medication has proved that spontaneous abortions 
occur from the effects of constitutional syphilis; but it happens 
oftener by inelasticity of the uterus, a diseased condition, lacking 
expansion. Abortion is not usually considered a serious accident 
at its initiatory time, but the majority of pelvic diseases are attrib- 
uted directly or indirectly to its secondary effects. The principal 
primary dangers are hemorrhage and infection; secondly, inflam- 
mation, adhesions, growths and systemic exudations by metastasis. 

Some of the diseases which are capable of causing abortion 
are scarlatina, smallpox, measles, tuberculous diseases, scrofula, 
phthisis, anemia, pelvic peritonitis, typhoid fever and malarial 
poisoning. Among other causes are prolapsus, retroversion, anti- 
version, uterine irritability, fibroid tumors, polypus, diseases of the 
tubes and ovaries, corroding ulcers, cancer of the cervix, and ad- 
hesions. 

The various methods of medication for artificial induction of 
abortion may be grouped together as a reference for the conven- 
ience of the practitioner. It may be stated first to the medical 
student that the dangers which are likely to follow abortion or 
premaure delivery are many, and that the responsibility should be 
assumed only after a consultation. Whenever it is known that the 
prolongation of pregnancy will destroy life or permanently ruin 
the health of the patient, abortion or premature delivery should 
be induced, and especially when violent conditions exist in the 
following diseases : Contracted or malformed pelvis, recurring or 
uncontrollable convulsions, chorea, whenever its violence threat- 
ens the life of a patient ; aneurismal tumors, if a rupture is feared : 
abdominal tumors, recurring attacks of uterine hemorrhage, and 
especially placenta previa when it commences about the twenty- 
sixth or twenty-eighth week of gestation. At the first appearance 
of exhaustion by loss of blood from placenta previa, the physician 



INTRA-UTERINE MEDICATION 71 

with consultation should induce abortion or premature delivery. 
Should the consulting physician disapprove, another may be se- 
lected. 

Many women die every year from vomiting, caused by intra- 
uterine irritation during pregnancy, which simulates gastritis, and 
occasionally the two conditions arise in the latter months of ges- 
tation. As a complication it becomes very dangerous, justifying 
a premature delivery even if only a few days remain to complete 
gestation. A dead fetus is always of itself a cause for the opera- 
tion. Any physician who is confident that a woman has a dead 
fetus is trifling with her life at every moment of delay and espec- 
ially in the absence of menstruation ; or on learning that the breast 
had begun to develop and then suddenly became flaccid and ac- 
companied with a sick feeling. 

In grouping together a few conditions, I have enumerated 
only a few of the most urgent cases which justify interference; 
in extreme and abnormal cases the judgment of the consulting 
physician should be the guide. 

Methods of inducing abortion. — In mentioning the various 
methods recommended for premature expulsion of the fetus, I 
wish to repeat the statement given in the forepart of this chapter 
that I will offer no new method of inducing abortion, because I 
believe that the method of inducing abortion is of no importance 
compared with the after-treatment. 

A majority of physicians believe that the scccessful termina- 
tion of abortion is wholly dependent upon observing proper anti- 
septic precautions while it is skilfully induced. But experience 
has proved that it depends on the condition of the patient and 
by obtaining complete antisepsis of the whole generative passage 
every twenty-four or forty-eight hours for twelve to fifteen days 
following its induction. Complete antisepsis can be obtained only 
by removing all of the blood from the uterus that has accumulated 
every twenty-four hours for the first three days and every forty- 
eight hours for twelve to fifteen days. 

One method is "to pass a sound into the uterus, feel around 
with it for the placenta, and detach a small enough portion of its 
periphery to cause a little blood to flow ;" this belongs to the ex- 
pectant method and is not reliable, nor safe with women who are 
constipated, for reaction may not occur for ten or twelve days, 
and as the accumulated blood is not properly removed, the case 
may become desperate. 

To all who find it necessary to produce premature delivery, 
it should be remembered that it ought never to be induced unless 



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the condition of the patient justifies it, and even then only after 
deliberate consultation. 

Piercing the membranes is always accompanied with great 
danger; it may be successfully accomplished several times and 
then with fearful results at the next attempt. The situation of the 
uterus, the size, toughness and proximity of the membranes to the 
cervix present a condition of circumstances which often make it 
impossible for any physician to know what he is piercing, although 
he may be using only a small amount of force. 

The third scientific and harmless method of inducing justifi- 
able abortion or premature delivery is to introduce a speculum and 
cleanse the vagina with a solution of 1/1000 bichlorid of mercury ; 
measure the depth of the uterus with a small adjustable sound ; 
dilate the cervix one-quarter of an inch with uterine forceps; 
remove the wire from a hard rubber catheter ; immerse it in the 
bichlorid solution ; cut it in two parts, using the pointed part by 
binding a cotton pledget over its outer end, with string attached 
for protecting the vaginal folds; now pass the prepared hard- 
rubber catheter through the cervix into the uterine cavity and sat- 
urate another cotton pledget with string attached in a glycerine 
and antiseptic solution and pass it into the vagina and up against 
the cervix to hold the catheter in place. The catheter having been 
immersed in the hot bichlorid of mercury solution becomes so soft 
that, when introduced into the uterus, it curls up and acts suffi- 
ciently as a foreign body to cause slight or unnoticeable uterine 
contractions, which rupture the ovum and start a little blood; 
this method may be applied for any stage of justifiable abortion 
from four to twelve weeks; but the catheter should be removed 
in twenty-four hours and the accumulated blood washed out, and 
if the breast has not become flaccid and reaction not occurred 
(means pain, or. flowing, or both) another catheter should be in- 
serted for another twenty-four hours. This is the safest method 
known, and especially when the accumulated blood is washed out 
every twenty-four hours for three or four days, then every forty- 
eight hours thereafter for twelve to fifteen days. 

Only the novice could fail to comprehend that without the 
introduction of a foreign septic material the fragments separated 
from the placenta and its circulation will take on a putrescent state 
caused by their retention, and from the heat of the body. My 
experience has proved beyond any reasonable doubt that the whole 
management of abortion should be written, recognized and treated 
semi-monthly; and in order to be successful in the treatment of 
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one. Hitherto the method of considering abortion has been an ex- 
pectant one, i. e., the physician has expected the uterus, an unde- 
veloped organ, to perform the same physiologic functions that it 
will when normally developed. 

1st. At the end of gestation the os internum is obliterated 
and submerged parallel with the muscular fibers of the uterus, 
and requires no artificial means to dilate it. 

2nd. During abortion, which occurs between the fifth and 
twenty-eighth weeks of gestation, the os internum is thick and 
unyielding, but in a normal (still unprepared) condition, and re- 
quires artificial means to secure its dilation. 

3rd. In the latter months of pregnancy the muscles and 
fibers of the uterus are in a maximum condition and when con- 
tracting are capable of reducing the capacity of its cavity four- 
fifths. 

4th. During abortion, which occurs between the fifth and 
twenty-eighth weeks of gestation, the muscles and fibers of the 
uterus are limited in their power of contraction and are unable 
to reduce the capacity of its cavity more than one-eighth to one- 
quarter. 

5th. At the end of gestation the capacity of the uterine cav- 
ity is from eight to fifteen pounds. 

6th. In abortion, which occurs between the fifth and twenty- 
eighth weeks of gestation, the capacity of the uterine cavity is 
from two ounces to three pounds. 

7th. During parturition the uterus, with extensive develop- 
ment of its muscles and fibers, exerts a force in connection with 
the assistance of the abdominal walls that never has been definitely 
estimated or measured for dilating the external os and expelling 
its contents. 

8th. During abortion the uterus, with limited development, 
rigid os internum and no abdominal assistance, presents under 
such disadvantages an insufficient power to dilate the cervix and 
expel its contents, thus necessitating artificial means. 

With such a portrayal of differential force of the uterus, it 
ought not to be difficult for anyone to see the necessity of artificial 
means for successfully terminating abortion. Whenever the uterus 
fails to empty itself and control hemorrhage, the physician should 
assist by artificial mean. Why? Because he is able to do what 
an undeveloped organ could not accomplish. 

To the physician who can comprehend the disproportionate 
force exerted by the uterus during the early and latter months of 
gestation, there can be no application of the old adage, "Meddle- 
some midwiferv is bad." 



ABORTION AT FOUR WEEKS 

If disease justifies abortion at three months, the same condi- 
tion must have been present at four weeks of pregnancy. An 
abortion at twelve weeks is apt to produce hemorrhage, retention 
of secundine fragments, infection, headache, prostration, subin- 
volution, inflammation and eventually retroversion. When abor- 
tion is induced at four weeks after conception the membranes are 
too small to cause hemorrhage, and if the accumulated blood is 
washed out every twenty-our hours for three days, then every 
forty-eight hours for twelve to fifteen days, headache, prostration, 
infection or subinvolution are not likely to ensue. 

There is no more reason for inducing abortion at four weeks, 
on account of secondary effects, than at three months, unless the 
patient's condition warrants it and then only with the approval of 
a consulting physician. 

To induce a justifiable abortion at four weeks, insert a specu- 
lum into the vagina and cleanse the parts with a solution of 1/1000 
bichlorid of mercury ; measure the depth of the uterus with a 
small uterine sound ; dilate the cervix about five-sixteenths inch ; 
pass a hollow silver-plated catheter into the uterus which has only 
a slight curve; rotate it in the uterine cavity several times, but 
never use any pushing force. This usually causes a slight pain 
while rupturing the ovum, but the introduction of quite hot water 
in the vagina afterwards controls it. An active cathartic should 
always be given immediately after rupturing the ovum. 

The patient returns in twenty-four hours, when her uterus 
should be washed out with the alkaline and peroxid solutions; 
and if the characteristic dark foam returns from the uterus with- 
out causing pain it shows that the ovum is ruptured. Reaction 
may not occur for three or four days, which means flowing ; but 
the uterus should be washed out for two more days, then every 
forty-eight hours for twelve to fifteen days. 

Following the second, third and fourth treatments, the de- 
hydrating glycerin packs, with string attached, should be inserted 
up against the cervix to remain twenty-four hours for inducing 
normal involution. 

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Another method for inducing abortion at four weeks is to 
insert part of a hard rubber catheter into the uterus to remain 
twenty-four hours, which will cause sufficient uterine contractions 
to rupture the ovum without producing pain, but the uterus should 
be washed out, as has been stated. 



ABORTION AT SIX WEEKS 



The general practitioner should be fully qualified to treat 
successfully spontaneous, accidental and unavoidable criminal six- 
week cases of abortion, also those that have been self-induced. 
The conditions to be met in one may be to control hemorrhage, 
in another infection, and in others to see that the bowels are emp- 
tied and remedies and applications prescribed to prevent a threat- 
ening peritonitis. Many of the six-weeks abortions become cases 
of emergency from being complicated with pneumonia, cystitis, 
infection and various diseases. 

Married women often abort from physical exertion in caring 
for an invalid husband, sister or mother; consequently their con- 
dition, being at low ebb, needs a supporting treatment in connec- 
tion with intrauterine medication. Abortions resulting from a 
rough ride or automobile collision are not uncommon. Women 
have aborted from inhaling dioxid gas, others from sleeping in 
newly painted rooms, still others from prolonged chilling while 
in swimming. 

It is sometimes difficult to determine a six-weeks pregnancy 
by the statement of women, when a measurement of the uterine 
depth, which increases from three-quarters inch to an inch and 
a quarter, will determine it. A justifiable abortion at six weeks 
may become serious from hemorrhage, in those cases where em- 
menagogues have been taken freely for several days previous to 
the rupture of the ovum, which have relaxed and engorged the 
pelvic vessels. 

Again, the ovum and its surrounding tufts have developed 
sufficiently to invite a determination of blood to the uterus in its 
effort to empty itself ; yet, the development is too small to be ex- 
pelled by the limited contractions of the uterus. The cervix in 
this condition being rigid and insufficiently dilated to pass a dull 
curette, small pledgets of cotton may be saturated in a solution 
of persulphate of iron and passed through the cervix into the 
uterus. A cotton pack saturated in the same solution, with string 
attached, should be inserted up against the cervix to remain twen- 

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ty-four hours, when the uterus should be washed out at the regu- 
lar stated periods. 

There are several advantages to be obtained by inducing a 
justifiable abortion at six weeks, instead of twelve weeks. Treat- 
ed at six weeks the patient is not obliged to assume the recumbent 
position; she will have slight pains if she has dysmenorrhea and 
some may have severe periodical pains either in the morning, after- 
noon or at night from contracting a cold, followed by a slight 
infection. At twelve weeks the patient must keep the recumbent 
position, will have pains which may continue from three to forty- 
eight hours, and may have partial or complete retention of mem- 
branes, which may cause serious hemorrhage. She frequently 
acquires subinvolution, which results in endometritis ; and, by 
contracting a cold, is more likely to have peritonitis. Having 
shown the advantages of inducing abortion at six weeks, I will 
proceed to give its management. 

Introduce a vaginal speculum and cleanse the parts thoroughly 
with a solution of bichlorid of mercury 1/1000. Use a small 
uterine sound to obtain the curve of the cervix and situation of 
the fundus. The cervix should be dilated, and either of the two 
methods given in the chapter on Four- Weeks Abortion may be 
employed for inducing abortion at six weeks. Neither of these 
two methods should be employed other than to induce a justifi- 
able abortion, and then never unless followed by washing out the 
uterus every twenty-four hours for three days, and then every 
forty-eight hours for twelve to sixteen days. 



ABORTION AT EIGHT WEEKS 

The belief has prevailed that the appropriate time for in- 
ducing a justifiable abortion is at twelve weeks and by custom 
has become recognized as the least liable to danger, the uterine 
growth being then developed to a size which enables uterine con- 
tractions to expel its contents with little or no assistance. Experi- 
ence has proved that eight and nine-weeks abortions are attended 
with more danger, for it is necessary at these periods to render 
assistance on account of the small development of the ovum. 

When called to a patient who has not menstruated for eight 
weeks, is enceinte, and has met with an accident, followed in a 
few hours or days with symptoms of abortion, an examination 
should first be made to obtain the condition of the os, and if 
found only slightly dilated, accompanied with a little hemorrhage, 
every effort should be made to stop its further progress. Have 
the patient remain in bed and let the date of her last menstrua- 
tion be obtained. Ascertain whether impregnation occurred fol- 
lowing the last menstruation or preceding the anticipated period. 
The patient's statement will often aid the physician to estimate 
what state of gestation it is necessary to manage. 

If all means have failed to stop the progress of abortion, 
artificial assistance should be rendered, which will not only pre- 
vent secondary effects but will also save life. 

The necessity for applying the intrauterine treatment in- 
creases according to the condition of the patient and the time 
elapsed since the accident occurred ; i. e., if, at the expiration of 
seventy-two hours after the injury there is hemorrhage and uter- 
ine contractions, the intrauterine injections will usually control 
the hemorrhage, remove decomposed blood and other loose septic 
material. 

At the expiration of six or seven days after the accident 
the injections will correct the odor, control pain and hemorrhage, 
and will also prevent further septic absorption, a feature worth 
remembering. At the expiration of ten or twelve days after the 
accident the patient may exhibit all the symptoms of putrid in- 

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fection, high fever, rapid pulse, dry skin, dry tongue with red 
center, intense thirst, edematous abdomen and severe pain in the 
uterus, accompanied with an offensive discharge. 

It is not always easy to give the prognosis of so serious a 
case or to obtain its exact condition until the uterus is washed 
out two or three times with peroxid of hydrogen. If it is only in 
a mild septic state the injections will give relief for thirty to forty 
hours, but if the pain returns within one or two hours there is 
a part of the placenta retained, ascertained by the hemorrhage 
it may excite, or there may be metritis, a condition which favors 
rapid apsorption of the retained septic material. 

If metritis is present -and the hemorrhage not alarming the 
practitioner should not curette the uterus for fear of producing 
serious injury. It is better to treat such a condition by washing 
out the uterus every twenty- four hours with 

IJ Sulphate of magnesia oii 

95% Carbolic Acid .Gtt. x 

Aqua q. s , Oz. viii 

Apply cloths wrung out in hot carbolated Epsom Salts every 
five minutes and prescribe 

Tj> Spec. med. or normal tinct 

Gelsemium , z ss 

Bryonia Gtt. x 

Aqua q. s iv 

Misce Sig. : One dram every half hour for 
three hours, then every hour. 
When this treatment is actively applied there is little or no 
danger of peritonitis. 

In menorrhagia or metrorrhagia resulting from accidental, 
designed or justifiable abortion following eight weeks from pre- 
vious pregnancies and abortion, the uterus acquires subinvolu- 
tion, atony, ulceration of the endometrium and edematous ob- 
struction of the pelvic circulation. The uterus should be washed 
out every twenty-four to seventy-two hours with the alkaline 
solution, alternated with the peroxid; or with carbolated solu- 
tions of sulphate of magnesia, or either of these two solutions 
may be followed with sulphate of iron (copperas), three grains 
to the ounce. 

It has been observed that the adhering membranes will not 
decompose, nor slough off; the endometrium, becoming sensitive 
to touch, is covered with small tubular elevations which excite 
hemorrhage. The normal hemorrhage and sloughing process 
which occurs during abortion at eight weeks will usually terminate 



80 INTRA- UTERINE MEDICATION 

within ten to twelve days ; that is, if the uterus is washed out 
every twenty-four hours for three days, then every forty-eight 
hours for twelve to fifteen days. 

It is not expected that anyone will induce abortion at eight 
weeks unless the case is so urgent as to endanger life by waiting 
till twelve weeks. But frequently there is accidental abortion at 
eight weeks, which requires sufficient knowledge to prevent it or, 
if necessary, to terminate it successfully. If the os is dilated and 
the pains regular and strong, accompanied with a flow, and when 
advanced too far for controlling, it is advisable to defer action 
a few hours unless the hemorrhage should necessitate the imme- 
diate emptying of the uterus. In such a case, when the natural 
efforts of the uterus fail to expel its contents and the os is dilat- 
able three-quarters of an inch, the half spiral curette may be 
passed into the uterus and rotated slightly. If the pain is un- 
bearable, an anesthetic may be given just short of anesthesia., 
when the slow and careful rotation of the curette will expel all 
of the growth except a few adhering fragments that may be re- 
moved with a dull flat curette. 

Follow by washing out the uterus with the alkaline and 
peroxid solutions and finish with a solution of 

B Sulphate of Magnesia zii 

95% Carbolic Acid Gtt. xx 

Aqua q. s.. Oz. viii 

Have the patient assume the recumbent position, with a hot 
water bottle on the abdomen for several hours. Continue to 
wash out the uterus every twenty- four hours for three days, 
then every forty-eight hours until recovery. 



ABORTION AT TEN WEEKS 

Whenever gestation has advanced to ten weeks, with the 
uterus and system in a normal condition, the expulsion of a fetus 
and its secundines from the uterus by periodical contractions 
may be considered a physiologic process. But not, however, from 
previous confinements, abortion or other causes, the physical 
efforts are unable to expel a foreign body from the uterus. The 
difficulty of determining whether conception has occurred within 
a few days after the previous menstruation or just before the 
next anticipated period makes the induction of a justifiable abor- 
tion at ten weeks quite uncertain. When there is no extreme 
urgency, the physician should protect the life and health of any 
woman who is entitled to abortion, by compelling her to post- 
pone its induction to the thirteenth or fourteenth week. 

There is more certainty that the mebranes will completely 
separate from the uterus at thirteen weeks than at ten or even 
twelve weeks. At fourteen weeks of gestation the os acquires 
more dilatable elasticity, with greater compensatory results than 
at ten or twelve weeks. It is not expected then that abortion 
will be induced at ten weeks ; but every practitioner should be 
thoroughly qualified to prevent a threatened abortion, for he will 
meet accidental and spontaneous cases at this time which require 
special assistance. 

Spontaneous abortion has for ages been an unsolved prob- 
lem, but clinical observation of the result obtained from the 
application of intrauterine method of washing out the uterus has 
reasonably solved this question. Spontaneous abortion usually 
occurs, with primipara or multipara, between the tenth and six- 
teenth week of gestation. 

When washing out the uterus in cases of spontaneous abor- 
tion I observed that at the following pregnancy, gestation was 
prolonged to maturity. The treatment of so many women who 
had spontaneously aborted several times and then carried to 
maturity after a course of uterine medication conclusively proves 
that the uterus develop to a certain stage of gestation, then 
ceases. There are many slight affections of the uterus which 
obstruct its physiologic functions : different reflex irritations, 

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removing all doubt as to the cessation of its development at a 
certain stage of gestation, followed by spontaneous abortion. 
Clinical observation has further proved, beyond a doubt, that 
unobserved reflex irritation of the uterus causes the gastric 
glands to secrete a sensitize fluid, which is the result of the 
morning sickness. 

Most practitioners have been called to control hemorrhages 
between eight and ten weeks of gestation, occurring from acci- 
dental, spontaneous and unavoidable criminal cases of abortion. 
The unavoidable cases are those where a woman obtains an 
induction of abortion by one physician and calls another to 
terminate it, giving as explanation that she injured herself when 
alighting from a car, or some other plausible excuse. These 
are very undesirable cases, for one assumes a punishable re- 
sponsibility ; but if a physician refused his services and the pa- 
tient flowed to death, he would be rightly cesnured by the public. 

Most all hemorrhages from abortion are those of emer- 
gency. Therefore, a physician should always be prepared with 
efficient hemostatics, antiseptic, anesthetic, and instruments for 
emptying the uterus at a moment's notice. There are safe and 
unsafe times to empty the uterus during abortion, which occurs 
between the eighth and tenth weeks of gestation. When called 
to control hemorrhage during abortion, learn of the lapse of 
time that occurred between the rupture of the ovum and reac- 
tion, i. e., when either flowing or pain started. For the longer 
the time, there is more muscular atony and lack of physical 
power of the uterus. The uterus is tenacious and resisting to 
injury from the curette following the first three or four days 
after the rupture of the ovum, which is a safe time to empty 
the uterus. I was called in February, 1919, to control a hemor- 
rhage occurring from abortion at ten weeks of gestation. The 
woman had had the membranes ruptured by some physician six 
days earlier. On my arrival I learned that she had fainted from 
loss of blood, but without pain. I gave her a dram of ergot 
but wasted no time waiting for its action; my instruments were 
made aseptic with an antiseptic and hot water; then a speculum 
was introduced into the vagina and the parts cleansed as well as 
possible with such flooding; the half spiral curette was passed 
into the uterus, and on rotating it to loosen the membranes, she 
fainted; as soon as she was resuscitated I gave her an anes- 
thetic short of anesthesia, which enabled me to empty the uterus 
quickly and with a dull, flat curette to remove the adhering frag- 
ments. Her uterus was washed out with the alkaline and 
peroxid solutions and followed with a solution of 1$ magnesia 
sulphate 3ii. 95% carbolic acid Gtt. x. Aqua q. s. Oz. viii. 



INTRA-UTERINE MEDICATION 83 

and a hot water bag placed over the abdomen for two or three 
hours. The uterus was washed out every twenty-four hours 
for three days, then every forty-eight hours for eight days more, 
followed with dehydrating packs after the first three treatments, 
which resulted in perfect involution and an excellent recovery. 

There are incidents occurring at either eight, nine or ten 
weeks of gestation with women that might be determined as 
accidental or spontaneous abortions. Mrs. J. R., on May 10, 
1895, had passed two weeks over her second absent menstrua- 
tion. Two weeks earlier she had begun the decoration of sev- 
eral rooms. On arriving at ten weeks of gestation she began to 
feel ill and called to explain her feelings, saying that she was 
restless and sleepy but could not sleep ; there was a thin brown 
coating on her tongue, a loss of appetite and a sallow skin ; dis- 
tressing sensations would start from the pelvis and pass up 
through the body, making her feel deathly sick, tired and lan- 
guid. Her condition was worse during the morning hours. Her 
symptoms, together with the knowledge that women are at- 
tacked frequently with malaria during the early months of ges- 
tation, made me prescribe for that disease. At the expiration of 
one week she called again and said that she received no benefit 
from the medicine and was growing weaker. A more thorough 
examination and solicitous inquiry proved that her breasts were 
developing naturally until she began decorating, when they be- 
came flaccid. I was then convinced that she was pregnant 
and that the fetus was dead. A consulting physician agreed 
that abortion should be induced. A speculum was introduced 
and the parts thoroughly cleansed with a bichlorid of mercury 
solution of 1/1000. In order to run no risk of injury when rup- 
turing The membranes, we inserted a hard-rubber catheter into 
the uterus to remain twenty-four hours. On returning the next 
day there had been no action ; so the catheter was removed and 
the membrane ruptured with a silver catheter. Eight ounces of 
offensive straw-colored liquor amnii escaped. We then prescribed 
1$ Potassae chloras 3ii. Specific med. Echinacea 3vi. Aqua 
q. s. oz. iv. Misce. Signa: One dram every two hours 

In forty-eight hours I visited her and washed out her uterus 
with the alkaline and peroxid solutions. The brown, character- 
istic foam returned from the uterus, showing that a septic con- 
dition had resulted from the retention of the dead fetus. No re- 
curring pains nor flow had occurred. After the second forty- 
eight hours I washed out her uterus, which showed the peroxid 
foam modified ; she was feeling a little better, but no pains nor 
flow had occurred. A third forty-eight hours had passed when 



8 4 INTR A-UTERINE MEDICATION 

I washed out her uterus again; no pains nor flow appeared and 
yet she improved slowly. Thus it will be seen by the escape 
of the liquor amni and by intrauterine medication repeated every 
forty-eight hours that the further absorption of septic material 
was prevented. 

Vaginal douches of astringents were resorted to daily, and 
parturient medicines given to arouse the physical power of the 
uterus, but all efforts failed to produce uterine contractions. 
Ten days passed and the physical power having made no attempt 
to empty the uterus of its contents, it became necessary to ren- 
der artificial assistance. 

The cervix was easily dilated on account of the atonic con- 
dition of the uterus. I then introduced the half-spiral curette 
into the uterus and rotated it so slowly that it required no anes- 
thetic to empty the uterus of is decaying fetus and membranes. 
A dull, flat curette removed the few retained adhering mem- 
branes, and following their removal a mild flow began. Her 
uterus was washed out with the alkaline antiseptic and peroxid 
solutions every forty-eight hours during the next ten days, and the 
glycerin and wool dehydrating packs inserted against the cervix 
after each treatment to induce involution. This woman made 
an excellent recovery and has since given birth to another child. 

On January 25, 1919, Mrs. G. L. had passed three weeks 
over her second absent menstruation; sixteen months previously 
she had a child taken by the cesarian operation. She was less 
than four feet in height and had an extensive posterior curvature 
of the spine, being so seriously crippled she did not want to have 
another child by that method. So she took nearly one hundred 
grains of quinine in twenty-four hours. In forty-eight hours 
her breasts, which were developing, became flaccid, pulse rapid 
and weak, temperature 102 4/10 Fahr. One week after taking 
the quinine I was called and found her in the above condition. 
I called a consulting physician who agreed that she had killed 
the fetus with the quinine, and said it ought to be removed, 
but thought that it would imperil her life. Seven days after 
she had taken the quinine we adjusted a hard-rubber catheter 
in the uterus to remain till the next day when it was removed 
and her uterus emptied with a half-spiral curette and adhering 
fragments removed with a dull curette. Her uterus was washed 
out every twenty-four hours for three days, then every forty- 
eight hours for fourteen da^vs, at which time she had fully 
recovered. — ^ 

There has never been a treatment comparable to the intra- 
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INTRA-UTERINE MEDICATION 85 

echinacea for saving life when removing a dead fetus from the 
uterus that has been retained for several weeks. The decom- 
position of the fetus and secundines are absorbed and produce 
muscular atony of the uterus, which overcomes its physical power 
for expelling its contents. 



ABORTION AT TWELVE WEEKS 

Textbooks contain antiquated methods for inducing justi- 
fiable abortion at twelve weeks. This being a fact, should inno- 
cent mothers and wives be subjected to an unreliable treatment 
who are so unfortunate as to become pregnant when affected 
with an incurable disease? The medical schools teach students 
the quantity of arsenic and strychnine that is beneficial and the 
amount that will cause death. Do honorable physicians give 
these poisons to destroy life? Should the use of these poisons 
be prohibited because some physician has criminally used them? 
Is a doctor who knows how to induce and manage a case of 
justifiable abortion less honorable than one who is ignorant and 
applies an obsolete or inefficient method? 

Thousands of women have died whose condition justified 
abortion and who had it produced by a physician or midwife 
whose knowledge was based on an expectant method to manage 
it. This can be shown by the following instructions of text- 
books: "During abortion the attitude of the physician, beyond 
the control of hemorrhage, should be an expectant one." From 
puberty to the approach of the menopause, the uterus acquires a 
great many conditions which absolutely require a special assist- 
ance to help it empty itself, besides that of hemorrhage. 

Who has not seen cases of abortion, where there was hyper- 
plasia and hypertrophy of the cervix, that had resisted all uterine 
efforts to empty itself for several days and then failed? Retro- 
version does not always prevent conception ; but it obstructs the 
expulsion of the secundines during abortion and needs assist- 
ance. A rigid os often resists uterine contractions to empty the 
uterus until the patient is exhausted and needs assistance. The 
author has seen cases of abortion in which there was infec- 
tion that caused only uterine contractions. In such a con- 
dition the uterus is unable to expel its contents without the 
alternating expansive efforts to separate the growth; but within 
a few hours after the infection was washed out the normal con- 
traction and expansive efforts of the uterus expelled its contents. 
There are cases of self-induced abortion where the uterine efforts 

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expelled most of its contents, but the adhering membranes set 
up infection which had to be artificially removed. There are 
cases of abortion where domestic remedies are given to control 
pain that develop complications requiring assistance to overcome, 
empty the uterus and prevent infection. 

A woman employed a physician to produce abortion, who 
told her to call another physician if she needed any assistance ; 
when reaction occurred as pain, she took several grains of 
quinine which changed the recurring pains into a continuous 
one that was endured for thirty hours without relief. In this 
case I dilated the cervix with the help of an anesthetic, then 
washed out the decomposing blood, which restored the recurring 
pains and enabled the uterus to expel its contents. 

Abortion an Injury. — Abortion consists of an injury. The 
destruction and removal of the fetal shell is a laceration of tissues 
and an injury to the uterus. With this proposition a question may 
be raised. Has the palliative vaginal douche treatment given 
satisfaction, and will it prevent secondary effects? We must 
answer in the negative. 

A recent method of the criminal abortionist is the removal 
of the whole fetal shell at one treatment by the use of an anes- 
thetic and the curette. Women subjected to such an injury, with 
antiseptic precautions, will not die but they will flow for two 
weeks and sometimes months and very profusely at the next 
menstruation. This method of abortion produces subinvolution, 
sterility, irritation and inflammation, which eventually develops 
cancers, fibroid tumors and other pelvic diseases requiring 
operations. 

Septic Peritonitis. — There are many causes that develop peri- 
tonitis during abortion: Chronic metritis, which aids rapid 
absorption of septic blood ; retention of the membranes ; injury 
of the endometrium ; and perforation of the uterus with the 
curette ; puncture of the uterus while rupturing the membranes ; 
contraction of cold and constipation. Every one of these causes 
can be controlled except puncture and perforation of the uterus 
by the intrauterine method of washing out the uterus. If these 
injuries are known when produced, an operation may save life. 
There is a great difference between peritonitis produced from 
decaying membranes in the uterus where it can be controlled by 
washing out the uterus, and one developing from perforation or 
puncture of the uterus with the poisoning in the abdominal 
cavity, where it may be controlled only by an operation. When 
curetttment has injured the endometrium, decomposing blood will 
sometimes be absorbed and cause abcesses in contiguous parts, 



88 INTRA-UTERINE MEDICATION 

but when lanced and washed out with peroxid and mild alkaline 
antiseptics, drainage may be maintained by inserting absorbent 
gauze into the lanced aperture. 

Diagnosing Conception. — Most people believe that a doctor 
ought to know whether a woman is pregnant or not. It is diffi- 
cult to determine early pregnancies of women who have borne 
and nursed their infants; bnt there is one positive sign of preg- 
nancy of those who have never given birth to a child ; that is, 
their breast develops a lump harder than the glands of a natural 
breast, and within one month after conception occurs. This lump 
is always present in the primipara regardless of the morning 
nausea. 

Artificial Production of Abortion. — Physicians must be on 
their guard, or they may sometimes be imposed upon. Women 
may be divided into two classes — those who desire children and 
those who do not. The latter class will practise various decep- 
tions ; but the physician is safe if he never induces abortion with- 
out first having a consultation. Remember, in the first place, 
that a human life depends on your decision; it is better, there- 
fore, that the responsibility should be shared. If the consultant 
does not agree with you that abortion should be induced, the 
pregnancy may be allowed to go on; but if he does agree with 
you on this point, your position is materially strengthened. 

Indications for Artificial Abortion. — Whenever it is known 
that the prolongation of gestation is going to destroy life or intel- 
lect, or permanently ruin the health of a patient, abortion should 
be induced. It is a well known fact that a large number of 
patients die every year from vomiting, due to pregnancy. It was 
to this condition that the gifted Charlotte Bronte, "who married 
somewhat late in life and was believed to be suffering from acute 
gastritis, unfortunately fell a victim." 

Many women have used various drugs to produce vomiting, 
or they suffer nausea only when the physician is in the room. 
The practitioner must be on his guard and obtain truthful evi- 
dence of a trustworthy nurse, or friends who know the true con- 
dition of the patient. Whenever the vomiting becomes intract- 
able and is a reality, and the woman will die if she is not relieved, 
it would be nothing less than criminal not to induce abortion. 
Some women exhibit very little correlative sympathy, during ges- 
tation, between the stomach and uterus while others experience 
enough sensitized reflex action to produce exhaustion and death. 
There are other conditions besides uncontrollable vomiting which 
justify artificial abortion. It is well known, however, that a great 
many women die annually of puerperal nephritis which does not 



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begin until after the fourth month, but in exceptional cases it 
occurs even earlier than this. 

When a woman is pregnant with a cardiac disease of such 
a character that you believe her life endangered, it is your duty 
to produce abortion. If a patient has cancer, or in the advance 
stage of phthisis, abortion ought not to be induced, because, in 
the first class of cases, there are two lives to consider, as the 
patient may have a long life before her while in the latter it is 
scarcely possible that she would live under any circumstances. 

A physician will not be called on often to induce a justi- 
fiable abortion when a woman is affected with chorea for it is 
a condition which usually responds to direct medication. If a 
patient has a contracted pelvis which is recognized by measure- 
ment, it is my belief that abortion is safer than cesarean sec- 
tion, Porra's operation. 

In the case of violent convulsions from any cause what- 
ever, abortion is indicated. It makes little difference whether 
the convulsions are choreic, epileptic, uremic, or of any other 
character except hysterical. Even if the seizures are controlled 
for the time being, it is improbable that gestation can go on 
for several months more, without a return of the convulsions, 
and most likely in such an aggravated form as to result in death. 

Uncontrollable Uterine Hemorrhage. — Placenta previa is 
an abnormal attachment of the decidua reflexa in early preg- 
nancy, dividing the cavity of the uterus into two parts. The 
ovum develops in the upper part or fundus of the uterus. The 
abnormal attachment which separates the uterine cavity into an 
upper and lower chamber in placenta previa is constructed of 
more tenacious and inelastic fibers than those of the membrane. 
Therefore, the abnormally attached placenta continues to grow 
as rapidly as the uterus and ovum up to five and a half or six 
months of gestation, when it ceases to develop. The further 
development of the uterus causes its walls to separate from the 
abnormally attached undeveloping partition, which is the cause 
of the hemorrhage. Some practitioners may have brought on 
a premature birth at six months or delivered a child at the end 
of gestation where placenta previa was present, and then con- 
gratulated themselves on their accomplishment. It should be 
known that the abnormally fibrous attachment has divided the 
cavity of the uterus longitudinally, obliquely, or parallel through 
its center. When the placenta attachment divides the cavity of 
the uterus longitudinally with adhesions lining the cervix, and 
the patient is willing to remain in bed until maturity of gesta- 
tion, the two lives may be saved, because the fetal development 



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has room to grow at the fundus or center of the uterus. In the 
oblique form the lower part of the attachment may be so near 
as to divide the cavity into unequal parts with the ovum in the 
larger, which allows uterine development with very little hemor- 
rhage. When the central placenta previa attachment divides the 
uterine cavity into two equal parts, it will cause death unless 
abortion is induced at the time of the first pronounced hemor- 
rhage, or the patient remain in bed to maturity of gestation. 

The conventional method of inducing abortion with the 
assistance of the uterine contractions will fail when the placenta 
previa is centrally attached. A patient with placenta previa 
centrally attached should be placed upon an operating table and 
anesthetized. A physician with a small hand should then pass 
it into the vagina and slowly dilate the cervix with his fingers, 
next pass the hand into the uterus and separate the tenacious 
attachment, while steadying the uterus with the left hand on the 
abdomen. By withdrawing his hand back into the vagina the 
detached membranes will be expelled, and if the uterine con- 
tractions are unable to expel the fetus, the fingers should en- 
circle its head and slowly deliver it while withdrawing the hand. 
The uterus should then be washed out with the alkaline anti- 
septic and peroxide solutions and finish the treatment with a 
solution of 5 Magnesia sulphate 3i. Phenol Gtt. x. Aqua q. s. 
Oz. viii. ; place the hot water bag over the hypogastrium for two 
or three hours. Continue to wash out the uterus every twenty- 
four hours for three days, then every forty-eight hours for 
twelve to fourteen days. 

Methods of Abortion. — I refer to a few methods in order 
to warn physicians to avoid them. The first method is to intro- 
duce a silver-plated sound into the cavity of the uterus and push 
it forcibly through the fetal shell. This is a very dangerous 
method for no one can positively tell whether he is shoving it 
through the ovum or through the walls of the uterus. If through 
the walls of the uterus septic infection is set up in the abdomen, 
and usually with fatal results. 

Another method is to introduce into the cervical canal a 
tent or sponge, or sea-tangle, which is to cause sufficient dila- 
tion to empty itself. This is an antiquated and faulty method 
for there may be hypersplasia or uterine edema caused by for- 
mer abortions or births which prevent contractions of the uterus. 
The first contraction of the uterus pushes the tents out of the 
cervix, with delays, which necessitates the replacing of them, 
during which time the retained blood is decomposing and set- 
ting up infection that may be difficult to control. Biologic exam- 



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inations have been made showing that sea-tangle tents, prepared 
with every antiseptic precaution, were permeated with bacterial 
life and on this account should never be employed. A third 
method is to pass a silver-plated catheter carefully into the uterus 
and along its walls, separating the decidua reflexa from the 
decidua vera. In this way abortion is often delayed from 
three to ten days, during which time infection is producing con- 
ditions that are difficult to control by the conventional means 
associated with this method. 

A fourth method is the use of certain drugs, such as savin, 
nutmeg, penneroyal, cotton root, ergot, viscum album, or mistle- 
toe. These drugs are always used with cathartics which often 
produce intestinal hemorrhage. When these drugs are given 
strong enough to induce abortion they frequently poison the 
patient or injure her health without emptying the uterus. There 
is nothing that would discredit a physician more than to use 
drugs, to induce justifiable abortion, which are so dangerous to 
life. 

Having written disparagingly of a few conventional meth- 
ods, you will expect me to offer some safer and better way. Let 
us suppose that you have a patient at the end of twelve weeks 
of gestation in whom conditions, in your opinion, warrant your 
calling a consulting practitioner, and he agrees with you that 
abortion should be induced. 

A better way to induce a justifiable abortion at twelve weeks 
is to put the patient on a gynecological chair, insert a speculum 
and thoroughly cleanse the vaginal canal with a solution of 
bichlorid of mercury 1/1000; dilate the cervix about one-quarter 
of an inch, which is sufficient ; remove the wire from a hard- 
rubber catheter and immerse it in the bichlorid solution ; fasten 
a cotton with a string attached on its outer end to protect the 
vaginal folds; then anoint the catheter with vaseline and pass it 
into the cavity of the uterus; now saturate a cotton pack, with 
string attached, one inch in size, in some mild alkaline antiseptic 
and insert it up against the cervix to hold the tube in position 
for twenty-four hours. Give or order a physic that will evacuate 
the bowels several times. At the end of twenty-four hours, if 
there have been no pains, the catheter should be removed, and 
the blood, which its presence created in the uterine cavity, should 
be washed out with a mild alkaline antiseptic. Now reinsert 
another fresh rubber catheter, which usually causes reaction, 
pains starting sometimes within the second twenty-four hours, 
which may begin a half -hour apart but come closer and closer 
together until they appear every five, three or even two minutes. 



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If the os is dilatable the time is approaching when the uterus 
will expel its contents. At this stage of abortion the patient may 
become nauseated or even vomit, which often occurs when the 
os is relaxing or rapidly dilating, and is a good omen, for sure 
enough the fetus and membranes are soon expelled. If the mem- 
branes are torn in two, the half spiral curette should be intro- 
duced immediately into the uterine cavity and rotated slowly to 
see if the patient can endure the pain, without an anesthetic, 
while the curette is loosening the retained part. If her suffering 
is unbearable an anesthetic should be given, short of anesthesia, 
when the membranes may be easily removed. 

It having been expelled, the small adhering fragments should 
be removed from the endometrium with a dull flat curette. The 
uterus should then be washed out with the alkaline antiseptic 
and peroxide solutions, followed by a solution of I£ Magnesia 
sulphate 3iss. carbolic acid Gtt. x. Aqua q. s. Oz. viii and the hot 
water bag applied over the hypogastrium for two or three hours. 
The uterus ought to be washed out every twenty-four hours for 
three days, then every forty-eight hours for ten, twelve or four- 
teen days or until the peroxid solution returns from the uterus 
free of its charactertistic effervescence. 

If_the uterus is unable to expel any of its contents the phy- 
sician should proceed according to the instructions given where 
the membranes were torn in two, and follow the completion of 
that treatment. The separation of the membranes from the uterus 
by curettement is an injury which should always be treated by 
washing out the uterus with the alkaline and peroxid solutions 
and finished with the magnesia sulphate solution. When there 
is an offensive odor one may prescribe: 9 Potassae chloras 3i. 
Specific med. Echinacea Oz. ss. Tincture Arnica Gtt. Aqua q. s. 
Oz. iii. Misce Signa: One dram every two hours. 

By this method the physician does not rupture the mem- 
branes, which averts one of the greatest dangers associated with 
abortion. Neither does the rubber tube rupture the ovum ; it 
merely irritates the uterus so that when continued for twenty- 
four hours the irritation usually brings on mild uterine con- 
tractions, which separates enough of the membranes to start a 
little flow. By washing out the blood and inserting another 
tube infection is avoided for another twenty-four to forty hours, 
when reflex uterine contractions will become more powerful and 
closer together and finally rupture the ovum and expel its con- 
tents. 

The patient passes through these different stages, covering 
twenty-four, forty-eight or seventy-two hours without experi- 



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encing any shock, hemorrhage, sick feeling or infection ; then the 
recurring pains produce little or no prostration. 

This proves conclusively that hemorrhage, headache, fever, 
offensive odor, aching sick feeling and prostration all result from 
not removing the decomposing blood often enough to prevent 
infection. 



USE OF THE CURETTE 

The following article is quoted from an abstract in the 
Chicago Clinic: 

"The dangers of the curette are numerous. The first danger 
is perforation of the uterus; however, the perforation may be 
due to preliminary dilation. Perforation by the curette is not 
uncommon in malignant disease. Large numbers of operators 
report such perforation. 

"In a septic uterus the walls are very friable and extremely 
easy to perforate. After abortion or labor, perforation by the 
curette is most frequent, and easy, at the old placenta site. 

"Most inexperienced operators perforate the uterus while 
incautiously introducing the curette. To prevent perforation by 
the curette, it is well to hold the hand on the fundus and to locate 
the points which one wishes to curette. Should the curette slip 
beyond the resistance, it is well to withdraw the curette and 
measure with a blunt sound. With a perforated uterus use ergot 
and opium. 

"Uterine perforation by the curette does not call for hyste- 
rectomy. 

"If intestinal hernia occur, it would require hysterectomy. 
Death occurred in a London hospital two days after curettage 
from sepis. The curette makes rapid pyosalphinx out of salpin- 
gitis. 

"In some cases the passing of the curette through the uter- 
ine walls is only the evidence of a metro-peritoneal fistula. 

"Never curette without previous careful bimanual exam- 
ination. 

"A physician curetted a patient from whom a membrane 
was expelled; death followed rapidly. The autopsy showed that 
the woman had an ectopic pregnancy which a bimanual examina- 
tion would have revealed sufficiently to have avoided the use 
of the curette. 

"By curetting the uterine cavity when salpingitis is present, 
the inflammation of the fallopian tubes is made to suppurate 
rapidly and become an abscess, or pus cavity. It is then appar- 

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ent, that any treatment which injures the tubes so seriously will 
disturb their function of participating in conception, thus directly 
causing sterility. Great caution, then, should be used, while 
making a bimanual examination, to determine the presence or 
absence of salpingitis, before curetting the uterus. 

"Experience has proven to me, while practicing intra-uterine 
medication that it is not necessary to injure one organ, in order 
to cure an inflammation of another. 

"The endometrium is always injured, more or less, by curet- 
tement, and can be restored only by washing out the uterus with 
the alkaline and peroxid of hydrogen solutions, every forty-eight 
hours, for ten or twelve days." 



DIMINISHED CAPILLARY CIRCULATION 

Virchow emphasizes the cell as the initiative and primary 
element of organism and scarcely admits of any other force. 
"The absorption of matter into the interior of the cells is unques- 
tionably an act of the cells themselves." "Cellular Pathology," 
by this author, demonstrates the fact that all disease is caused 
by altered or abnormal cells, but does not make known the cause 
of this condition and suggests a preventive or restorative treat- 
ment. The various organs, constructed for different purposes, 
perform different functions. By absorbing nourishment and ex- 
pelling waste products the cells of the circulatory system perform 
their functions. 

It is difficult to believe that the cells can become diseased and 
the capillaries remain healthy, or vice versa. This article is writ- 
ten to show the importance of maintaining 100 per cent capillary 
circulation and how a lower percentage affects physical functions 
and mental activity. 

When these acid and alkali secretions are proportioned, the 
blood with oxygen and the aid of the cells and capillaries sup- 
plies mental activity, energy to the nervous system, tonicity to 
the muscles, and elasticity or expansive and contractile energy to 
the heart, arteries, capillaries and cells. 

When these acid and alkali secretions fluctuate from one ex- 
treme to the other for a short time only, these energies are not 
affected. But when for a long period a diet predominates of 
foods blended with chemicals and stimulant irritants which inter- 
fere with electrical energy and colloidal reactions during diges- 
tion, the ratio of these secretions becomes broken and all these 
energies are weakened, as observed in chronic diseases, substan- 
tiated by inflammation, adhesions, growths, plethora, edema of 
the lungs, viscera and enteroptosis of various parts of the body. 

We know that diminished capillaries reduce the efficiency of 
the skin. Anemia of the skin, therefore, means diminished capil- 
laries in every part of the body. It further means little protec- 
tion to the nervous system, which becomes irritable and subject 
to concealed reflexes from the slightest centric and peripheric 

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irritation, as colloidal reactions during digestion and cold. It 
weakens muscular capacity and causes inelasticity, functional and 
organic heart troubles, arterio-sclerosis, venous stasis, varicose 
veins, ineffectual peristalsis, sphincter incapacity, enlarged and 
indurate lymphatics and semi-cell dynamics. 

If low per cents of capillaries produce enervation, pervert 
metabolism, and weaken physical functions, their absence in the 
brain produces greater injury than anemia. Observation proves 
that their absence incapacitates the mind to originate thought and 
dulls intellectual comprehension of the five senses which form 
the electrical register of mental impressions. The ability to con- 
centrate is weakened and one becomes incapable either of origi- 
nating thought or intelligently expressing it. The victims of 
diminished capillary circulation are morons, defectives, epileptics, 
idiots, maniacs, nymphomaniacs, melancholiacs, suicides, inebriates 
and criminals. 

A knowledge of the functional failures produced by capil- 
lary deficiency is worthless unless their primary cause is known. 
Wm. M. Bayliss, D. Sc, F. R. S., in his "Monograph on 
Biochemistry," states that enzymes are colloids and that "one of 
the most important physical properties of enzymes is their col- 
loidal nature, as shown by the fact that they do not pass through 
parchment paper, or do so with extreme slowness." 

Alfred W. McCann terms enzymes and colloids as the stimu- 
lating principle and vitalizing energy of the soluble salts in vege- 
tables, grains, meats, etc. Professor John Uri Lloyd, in the 
Electric Medical Journal for August, 1916, writes: "The step- 
ping onward and the transferring of vitality from cell to cell, and 
from organism to organism, in the support of life, seem to de- 
pend wholly upon the movements and actions of colloidal bodies, 
which in their formation and transformation remain still, if 
healthy, colloidal;" further, "Colloids may be classed, as I now 
view the subject in its relationship to life, as formless vitalized 
structures, capable of creating nourishing, and next destroying 
creatures composed of cell aggregations." 

It is impossible to estimate the importance that Professors 
John Uri Lloyd and Wolfgang Ostwald have given to the dietetic 
and nutritive subject by the classification of sugar and chlorid of 
sodium as colloids. Investigators of the digestibility of foods 
have stated that antiseptics interfere with the enzyme or colloidal 
reactions. Sulphurous acid is an antiseptic used to crystallize 
sugar; chlorin is an antiseptic and enters the composition of 
chlorid of sodium. Do sulphurous acid and chlorin lose their 
antiseptic properties in forming the composition of sugar and 



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salt? If these elements retain their antiseptic properties, they 
interfere with colloidal reaction. Permanent perversions of the 
system prove that there are stimulant and non-stimulant, irritant 
and nonirritant, refrigerant and nonrefrigerant, and aphrodisiac 
colloids. Again quoting Professor Lloyd, in the same journal, 
"The colloids have long been closely connected with scientific 
research in chemistry, physics, pharmaceutical manipulations, and 
in therapy." 

It is then high time that practitioners should learn by clinical 
observation how colloidal foods act during reactions and diges- 
tion, and which ones create irritation and imperceptible reflexes. 
A few observations show some of their effects ; the excessive use 
of sugar produces capillary hyperemia. Crystalline sugar may 
disappear in the formation of amorphous or colloidal bodies, 
which may be reactions during digestion, separate and prepare 
nourishment for absorption. But it does not prove that part of 
their properties do not create irritation, which, by unconscious 
overstimulation and relaxation, cause capillary stasis, ineffectual 
peristalsis, and lymphatic enlargements. 

The colloidal composition of chlorid of sodium may possess 
one of the principal elements for carrying on osmosis, but 
its excessive use breaks the proportion of the acid and alkali 
secretions and produces acidosis. With the ratio of the secretions 
broken for a period, the blood becomes irritant and causes un- 
observed and imperceptible reflex contractions of the cells. A 
triple daily repetition of these unnoticeable contractions tempo- 
rarily empties and shortens the capillary circulation, without re- 
filling, by determining blood to the larger vessels. 

There are two reasons why these factors are not easily seen 
to be the cause of capillary deficiency. The first is the enigmatic 
power which the human organism possesses for performing- 
countless phenomena; the second is the length of time required 
for the broken ratios of the secretions to so mark or pervert parts 
of the system as to make clinical observation more or less doubt- 
ful. In order to grasp the method of producing deficient capil- 
laries one should recognize the distinction between the effects 
of two physical phenomena, one unobservably carrying on as- 
similation the other imperceptibly conveying irritations to the 
vasomotor centers that by reflex contractions empty the capil- 
laries, weaken cell dynamics and pervert metabolism. 
> Treatment-— The capillary circulation can be greatly increased 
in the young and middle-aged but only partially in elderly per- 
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enzyme or colloidal reactions during- digestion. Carbolic, sul- 
phurous, benzoic, boracic, and salicylic acids ; alcohol, granular 
sugar, salt, essential oils and smoke are a few of the antiseptics. 
If foods that have been bleached or blended with these antisep- 
tics are proscribed, the colloidal reactions will not develop chemi- 
cal changes wihch create irritations and reflex contractions. In 
order to increase a diminished capillary circulation of 50 or 
lower per cent, accompanied with deficient oxidation, it is some- 
times necessary to practice daily slapping of the skin. Followed 
by ten or twelve different exercises and between each exercise 
placing the palm of the right hand over the abdomen and the left 
hand over the right, make several deep rotary pressures on the 
bowels. With a proper amount of raw and cooked vegetables 
and fruit, these rotary pressures secure daily evacuations. When 
there is 60 to 70 per cent capillary circulation, dry towel rubs, 
followed by exercises and deep rotary pressures on the bowels, 
improve metabolism and refill the capillary vessels. Those with 
a predisposition to cold should take a sponge bath once a week 
or two weeks, a dry towel rub every morning, anointing the 
body every fourth day with olive oil. Sleeping with wide open 
windows is also recommended. 

Summary 

1. Blended foods interfere with colloidal reactions, caus- 
ing irritation and imperceptible reflex contractions which empty 
the capillaries by determining blood to the larger vessels. 

2. Some blended foods cause acidosis and others hyper- 
alkalinity, either causing irritation and reflex contractions, which 
empty the capillaries. 

3. Colds produce peripheral irritation and reflex contrac- 
tions, which impair the circulation by diminishing the capillaries. 

4. Centric irritation and aperture infection cause reflex 
contractions, which diminish the capillaries. 

5. Capillary anemia obstructs and incapacitates mental and 
physical function and thus produces criminals, defectives and 
inmates of eleemosynary institutions. 

6. It is impossible to restore reparative action and cell 
dynamics and increase diminished capillaries by serum injections 
without correcting the diet. 



RETENTION OF A DEAD FOETUS 

Unpleasant emergencies sometimes occur in criminal abor- 
tion. On the discovery of pregnancy and particular environ- 
ments, some women, to bring on menstruation, resort to methods 
which are dangerous to life, such as manipulating the uterus with 
hard rubber catheters, knitting needles, throwing aqua ammonia 
into the uterus, taking tansy tea and strong emmenagogues ; dan- 
gerous amounts of turpentine or nutmeg; large quantities of 
quinine and cathartics. Some of these methods occasionally 
produce abortion by destroying the life of the foetus, but so 
weaken uterine nerves and muscles as to inhibit expulsive efforts. 

In many instances death occurs because physicians are not 
generally well versed in the intra-uterine constructive method, 
and do not know what can be accomplished with it. Text-books 
contain many signs and symptoms caused by the retention of a 
dead foetus, though only a few are of importance. The breasts 
of a pregnant woman who has not too recently nursed a child 
will become soft and flaccid, although menstruation does not 
return. 

More or less infection occurs from the liquor amnii and ces- 
sation of development with the death of the foetus in early preg- 
nancies. A dead foetus has been retained for weeks and months 
without a fatal issue. Minor signs are deteriorated health, low 
fever, loss of appetite, sunken countenance, dark areola around 
the eyes, fetid breath, hurried respiration, repeated rigors and 
periodicity. The latter sign makes diagnosis somewhat uncertain. 

The removal of a dead foetus is always justifiable, but a 
consulting physician forms a protection in case of the patient's 
death. 

Treatment — Whenever the symptoms positively indicate the 
retention of a dead foetus ; a half of a hard rubber catheter made 
aseptic, with a string attached, should be fastened in the uterus 
by a pledget of cotton with a string attached for removing it in 
24 hours. If no pains have occurred at the end of 24 hours re- 
move the catheter and wash out the accumulated blood and septic 
material, and if the cervix is not dilatable three-quarters of an 

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inch reinsert a fresh catheter for another 24 hours. The cervix 
then will usually be sufficiently dilated to empty the uterus. 

Pass a half spiral curette through the cervix and to the 
fundus and slowly rotate it. If the pain is unbearable administer 
chloroform short of producing sleep; then continue rotating the 
curette until the foetus and most of the secudines are removed ; 
now remove the remaining attached fragments with a flat dull 
curette ; then wash out the uterus with a three-ounce half-strength 
solution of peroxid of hydrogen, alternated with a five-ounce 
alkaline antiseptic solution given in this work and finish the wash- 
out with epsom salts two drams, 33 per cent phenol gtt. xv 
aqua q. s. oz. viii ; place^a hot water bag over the uterus for 2 
or 3 hours. Repeat the washout every 24 hours for two days, 
then every 48 hours until the uterus is free of oxidizable sub- 
stance. Evacuation of the bowels every day. If fever is present, 
showing early infection, prescribe 1J potassi chloras, 3i. Spe. 
echinacea, 3iv. Spe. veratrum gtt. xx, with full pulse or Spe. acon- 
ite gtt. x when rapid and weak, aqua q. s. oz. iv. M. Sig. : One 
dram every two hours. 

In an obstetrical practice one meets with a great many emer- 
gencies that are not surgical, but which are easily overcome with 
the proper instruments and a knowledge of the intra-uterine con- 
structive method. 



INTRAUTERINE MEDICATION 

Surgery, therapeutics, electricity, intrauterine medication, 
X-ray, massage and physiological adjustments, intravenous and 
hypodermic medications, are treatments which have specifically 
indicated fields, but whose interchangeable application has never 
given satisfactory results. 

Practical experience has proved the absolute necessity of the 
emphasis given to the word "conditions" for determining the 
nature of disease by J. M. Scudder, who propounded the more 
important Eclectic principles and became one of the greatest 
reform medical writers of the nineteenth century. 

The question arises, Will the practice of intrauterine medi- 
cation help determine a sufficient number of pelvic conditions, the 
comprehension of which cannot be reached by any other method, 
to warrant its continual application as an expedient to diagnose 
definitely uterine and pelvic diseases? The physiologic func- 
tions of the generative organs are frequently interrupted by acute 
and chronic diseases, making it an absolute necessity to under- 
stand fully these perverted conditions. 



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INFLAMMATION 

Whenever intrauterine medication is repeatedly applied, and 
at the right time, it will control metritis and prevent its develop- 
ing into the chronic stage; will control backache caused by mis- 
placed, congested or inflamed pelvic organs, and lateral endome- 
tritis, the etiology of pains in the hypogastric region in one or 
both ovaries. Uterine irrigation applied with deterrent medicines 
will induce anemia of the uterine vessels, thus inhibiting nutrition 
to submucous and interstitial fibromata and other benign growths 
and causing their absorption. It controls cervical endometritis 
which results from corporeal endometritis with exudations; re- 
troversion without adhesions, caused by endometritis ; edema and 
atony; uterine prolapsus due to metritis and atony; anteflexion 
resulting from interstitial metritis and atony. Intrauterine medi- 
cation controls metritis caused by contracting colds which sup- 
press menstruation, and prevents it from developing into peri- 
tonitis ; dysmenorrhea due to metritis or stenosis of the cervix ; 
parametritis extending to contiguous organs, resulting in pro- 
lapsus and other displacements ; perimetritis and vaginitis, causing 
hyperesthesia and repugnant appetence. It restores scanty and 
suppressed menstruation caused by non-secreting metritis; re- 
moves subinvolution due to chronic metritis. It empties the 
uterus of decomposed substance, relieves pain and restores sup- 
pressed lochia. 



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AUTO-TOXEMIA AND INFECTION 

When treating women for syphilis there is no auxiliary treat- 
ment equal to intrauterine medication for inhibiting further in- 
fection, controlling- pelvic metritis and irritation. Its application 
following the contraction of gonorrhea will determine whether 
the gonococcus has infected only the endometrium or become 
gonohemia. The practitioner who qualifies himself to apply this 
method in connection with therapeutics is armed with a specific 
preventive for inhibiting toxemia of the lymphatic glands follow- 
ing phlegmasia dolens. This treatment is a specific for con- 
trolling auto-toxemia resulting from retained dead fetus. Ap- 
plied in connection with therapeutics, it is also a specific for 
puerperal fever. Phlegmons, fistula of the genital labia and 
phlyctense of the mons veneris, resulting from uterine toxemia, 
are readily controlled by irrigation. It controls vaginitis caused 
by septic exudations from the uterus, and applied before and after 
menstruation it inhibits headache and acne rosacea. There is a 
form of uterine auto-toxemia following abortion, with symptoms 
simulating the menopause, in which irrigation causes the rheu- 
matic pains and general edematous condition to disappear. Uterine 
auto-toxemia occurs during the latter months of gestation. When 
therapeutics fail, local medication is indicated, which if carefully 
and skillfully applied, will give satisfactory results. Many cases 
of cancer of the breast are due to uterine toxemia and reflex 
action, but with the septic substance removed and irritation con- 
trolled they will yield to an X-ray treatment. 



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OBSTETRICS 

Uterine medication applied in an obstetrical practice gives 
one confidence to meet and overcome the majority of emergen- 
cies or incidents which may occur before, during or following 
puerperium. Any abnormal condition which occurs during de- 
livery that is not classed as natural labor may be taken as an 
incident. Contraction of the uterus and closure of the cervix 
following delivery, retaining the afterbirth, is an incident of 
nervous irritation and reflex action which temporarily inhibits 
normal contraction and expansive energy. Warm antiseptic solu- 
tions thrown into the uterus control the irritation, producing 
normal contraction and expansion efforts and the expulsion of 
the secundines. Partial or complete suppression of the lochia, 
that causes the cessation of the lacteal secretion, is an incident, 
and the removal of decomposed material from the uterus re- 
stores both secretions. Post-partum hemorrhage results from a 
determination of blood to the uterus that is 'due to temporary sus- 
pension of the normal reflexes to contract recently opened vessels, 
and is easily controlled by throwing into the uterus a solution of 
Monsel's salts. Injuries of the uterine vessels and lymphatic 
glands that may develop puerperal fever or phlegmasia dolens can 
be quickly repaired and further absorption inhibited by uterine 
medication, thus jugulating either condition. Metritis, hyper- 
plasia and constitutional toxemia caused by laceration of the 
cervix are easily prevented by medicating the uterus. Peritonitis 
developed from puerperium is more readily controlled by thera- 
peutics when assisted by timely uterine cleansings. Auto-toxemia 
induced by inserting the hand into the uterus for turning the 
child, is easily prevented. Uterine medication is without an equal 
for repairing injury and inhibiting toxemia following a success- 
ful separation of the secundines and uterus in placenta previa. 

Practitioners with a large obstetrical practice are confronted 
with many incidents and emergencies arising from accidental, 
spontaneous and criminal abortion, which cause much anxiety to 
themselves and patients. The fear and timidity attending any 
form of abortion disappears when the uterus has emptied itself 

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of the product of conception, although the already serious condi- 
tion of the patient may be made worse and the physician's repu- 
tation placed at stake if he waits until toxemia develops before 
medicating the uterus. Abortions are not classified with physio- 
logic functions, therefore, separating the product of conception 
from the uterus at any stage of gestation is a solution of con- 
tinuity which requires topical medication to inhibit metritis, 
hyperplasia, edema, auto-toxemia, and to stimulate involution and 
restoration of the uterus. The application of this method enables 
one to control in their acute state nearly all conditions which 
occur as incidents at any stage of abortion, thus inhibiting the 
development of chronic stages. 



STERILITY; INABILITY TO PRODUCE YOUNG 

Sterility is one of those conditions of the system that can- 
not be classified as a physiologic function, although it occurs 
both from lack of development and acquired conditions, and 
should be treated more fully by text books. A lack of congenital 
development is a factor of its etiology, but the majority of causes 
is diseased conditions of the generative organs acquired during 
the procreative period, and many of which may be corrected by 
an indicated treatment. The mechanical and membranous forms 
of dysmenorrhea cause sterility, but may be overcome by uterine 
medication. The frequent act of entering the uterus with instru- 
ments for applying this method, induces normal expansion of the 
cervix, thereby removing stenosis and strictures. Sterility is 
caused in hundreds of cases by some part of the uterus being 
affected with a non-secreting metritis. Uterine medication estab- 
lishes secretion and then resolution. 

Catarrhal endometritis extending to the Fallopian aqueducts, 
developing salpingitis, is the etiology of many cases, and estab- 
lishing resolution of the endometrium often removes the cause. 
Retroversion, anteversion, metroptosis and other displacements 
of the uterus and pelvic organs are factors of sterility that can 
be corrected by this method. This condition frequently occurs 
following the acquisition of specific diseases, and when their in- 
vasion is confined to the vagina and uterus their effects can be 
removed by topical medication. Sterility is also due to chronic 
metritis and hyperplasia, but more recently termed sclerosis of 
the uterus, and there are stages of this condition that are quite 
amenable to local and absorbent medication. 

Sloughing myomata or fibrous polypi is another cause of 
sterility, and in the earlier stages can be controlled by local medi- 
cation and deterrent medicines. Women treated for submucous 
and interstitial fibroma, and who had previously borne children, 
have, following several months of local medication with deter- 
rent medicines, become pregnant and given birth or aborted. 
Acid exudations offer numerous factors in this trouble, and are 
easily controlled by uterine cleansings. Curettement is the 
etiology of many cases of sterility, and only a few cases can be 
made subject to conception by this method. 

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UTERINE REFLEXES 

Uterine irritation has developed many phenomena that are 
not well understood by those who do not practice uterine medica- 
tion, and there are few unrelieved conditions of the system that 
so destroy confidence in practitioners as being unable to recognize 
and control uterine reflexes. To comprehend uterine reflexes it 
must be remembered that irritation in any part of the body in- 
duces local contraction of muscular tissues with impingement of 
nerves. 

There are hundreds of both married and unmarried women 
who have suffered with sciatica for months and even years, to 
whom the treatment given to overcome congestion or metritis, 
restore the circulation of the skin, dilate the rectum and control 
intestinal irritation, failed to bring relief, but have been quickly 
cured by a few applications of uterine medication. A girl of sev- 
enteen who suffered with inflammatory rheumatism in her right 
hip for several months, which dislocated and shortened the limb 
two inches, with relief only when under opiates, was given entire 
relief from pain by five uterine irrigations, although left a crip- 
ple. A single woman, twenty-eight years old, affected with epi- 
lepsy for sixteen years, due to uterine reflex action, was cured 
by six weeks' local medication. 

Backaches are frequently due to metritis and reflexes, and 
are easily inhibited by local medication. Melancholia is often 
due to reflexes and is easily controlled. Many cases of insanity 
resulting from uterine reflexes, caused by probing the uterus to 
induce the menstrual flow, are quickly restored to sane conditions 
by uterine irrigations. Thousands of women are affected with 
indigestion and fermentation of food from uterine reflexes, 
which immediately cease following one of these treatments. 

Uterine reflexes are the etiology of hundreds of cases of tic 
douloureux and other neuralgias that have been given immediate 
relief by this method. Women are frequently troubled with 
constriction of the rectum as the result of uterine reflexes, and 
with their interruption by local medication are brought relief. 
Women are compelled to endure pain in one or both ovaries from 

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uterine reflexes, which a few medicated applications to the cavity 
of the uterus would control. 

It is no uncommon thing to meet women with irregular ac- 
tion, palpitation and functional weakness of the heart, the eti- 
ology of uterine reflexes, which may be inhibited by this method. 
The etiology of nearly 30 per cent, of the neurasthenia cases can 
be traced to uterine reflexes, and cannot be physically and men- 
tally restored until the reflexes are controlled by local medication. 
It is difficult to estimate the number of women who are compelled 
to endure uterine reflexes due to curettement. Headaches occur- 
ring before and after menstruation are due to reflex action. The 
etiology of many cases T)f irritable cystitis is due to uterine re- 
flexes, and when controlled by local medication cease. Women 
who endure nervousness from a dry or moist and atonic skin, 
with thermal loss due to uterine reflexes, following local medica- 
tion have experienced more normal action of the skin. 

The etiology of angina pectoris, paroxysmal thoracic pain 
and suffocation due to vasomotor spasm, has been traced to uter- 
ine reflexes and relieved as soon as the reflex action was inhib- 
ited. A great many suffer from aphasia due to uterine reflexes, 
and can be cured by irrigation. Paroxysmal closure of the car- 
diac and pyloric apertures of the stomach is frequently caused by 
uterine reflexes, for after being controlled by specific gelsemium 
and lobelia the attacks have even continued to return until the 
reflexes were interrupted by uterine medication. 



MENOPAUSE 

For ages the medical profession has failed to control the 
pathological phenomena and inhibit sequelae which arise during 
the menopause, because of a lack of definite knowledge obtained 
from symptoms partially exhibited and the effect of therapeut- 
ical remedies, but now that we have intrauterine medication there 
should be no further excuse for failure to determine the etiology 
of nearly all phenomena. 

The uterus performs physiologic functions when in a healthy 
state, but the occurrence of puerperium, abortion, metritis and 
auto-toxemia frequently induce a pathological condition which 
weakens and inhibits the uterus from exerting its physiologic 
functions during the menopause, or as long as it is in a diseased 
condition. Uterine medication has proved beyond doubt that 
whenever the diseased condition of the uterus has been controlled 
during the menopause its energy was reacquired and its physical 
functions again performed. The reason that physicians do not 
comprehend that controlling diseases of the uterus during the 
climacteric period does not interfere with the physical functions, 
but on the other hand restores them, is because they have not 
considered that the uterus is more liable to disease at this time of 
life, as the result of a perverted circulation and deficient elimina- 
tion. 

Almost all women who have borne children and who have 
had metritis acquire a perverted circulation and an edematous 
condition of the pelvic organs previous to reaching the pre-cessa- 
tion period; but with these wrongs righted they will be free of 
any effects that may be attributed to the menopause. Elimina- 
tion is always diminished during the cessation period, presenting 
a condition favorable to metritis, ulceration and auto-toxemia of 
the endometrium, and these characteristics develop some alarm- 
ing and dangerous condition during and following the cessation 
period. 

When applying this method for controlling unnatural phe- 
nomena appearing at the cessation period, one easily learns that 
they all are induced by common-sense causes. For example, 

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women who have passed the cessation period quite comfortably 
are then subject to nervous irritation of the uterus, as reflex 
action for years, and obtain relief following the introduction of 
medicated moisture to the cavity of the uterus ; others are affected 
with retroversion, which inhibits drainage ; and in others atrophy 
of the cervix is acquired earlier than that of the uterus, thus 
retaining decomposed blood. Metro-salpingitis is present with 
some, and induces ovarian and uterine pains. Headache, back- 
ache, melancholia and insanity are caused by metritis, toxemia 
and reflex action. Increased plethora and rheumatic pains at the 
cessation time are due to toxemia and deficient elimination. 
Bloating, hot and cold flashes and profuse sweating are due to 
uterine absorption and reflex irritation. Menorrhagia and me- 
trostaxis result from metritis, atony and ulceration of the endo- 
metrium. Many cases of sciatica, supraorbital and other neu- 
ralgias which attack the system at the cessation period are caused 
by deficient drainage, retained septic substance, ulceration of the 
endometrium, auto-toxemia and reflex action. Some of the se- 
verest cases of gastro-enteralgia are due to intrauterine reflex 
irritation. 

Malignant and benign growths which attack the uterus at 
and following the menopause are due to a perverted circulation, 
edema of the uterus, a determination of blood and degeneration 
of pelvic tissues. 

While it is generally believed that atrophy of the uterus and 
ovaries always occurs during the menopause, there are thousands 
of women who arrive at the pre-cessation period with the uterus 
in a diseased condition which inhibits atrophy for years and 
even till death, because arterio-sclerosis affects the pelvic organs. 
Those who treat the menopause by the intrauterine medication 
method are able to recognize cellular death and auto-toxemia 
caused by arterio-sclerosis as the etiology of insanity, malignant 
growths and mysterious and unobserved conditions which result 
in sudden deaths. The uterus and ovaries are predisposed to 
arterio-sclerosis more than other organs of the body because their 
physiological functions are so frequently interrupted by incidents 
during puerperium, abortion, metritis, toxemia and specific infec- 
tions. Insanity and sudden death occurring during the meno- 
pause are frequently caused by unrecognized gangrene, a result 
of the degenerative influences of arterio-sclerosis. 

It does not redound to the credit of the medical profession, 
or to the physicain himself, who, after knowing these facts, inti- 
mates to a woman that all others of her sex have had to endure 
such suffering at this time of life, and that she must do likewise. 



GYNECOLOGY AND ITS NON-SURGICAL TREATMENT 

Gynecology treats of a large class of diseases, mostly chronic, 
which sympathetically or pathologically affect the whole human 
economy and it can scarcely be said that their etiology is well 
understood. This will be the case so long as temporary or ex- 
citing symptoms are accepted as causes. We must know the 
primary causes, and be able to trace their indirect effects to their 
ultimate or exciting causes. To trace logically the effects be- 
tween the primary and the exciting causes, the importance of 
understanding the reciprocal phenomena existing between the 
alimentary canal and the skin should be recognized, which 
knowledge the physician can acquire only by extensive experience 
in non-surgical treatment of gynecological diseases. 

The primary and indirect effects leading up to the exciting 
causes may be hypothetically illustrated as follows : A woman, 
aged thirty, an invalid from wrong living, was persuaded to fast 
thirty days, which resulted in perfect health. For several years 
afterwards she ate foods that irritated and over-stimulated the 
nerves of the alimentary canal, and that by reflex action emptied 
the capillaries and diminished transpiration, thus preparing the 
system for the development of exciting symptoms of gynecolog- 
ical diseases. 

The primary causes or symptoms are irritation, indigestion, 
constipation and overstimulation; the indirect causes or symp- 
toms are enervation, muscular atony, organic condition of the 
general circulatory system, subnormal temperature or slightly ele- 
vated, sallow, waxy pallor or muddy complexion, and local repar- 
ation inhibited ; the exciting causes or symptoms are uterine irri- 
tation and reflex action, puerperal septicemia, peritonitis, pyo- 
salpinx, ovaritis, menopause, phlegmasia dolens. effects of spon- 
taneous and criminal abortions, and specific diseases : effects from 
injuries during puerperium, as cervical laceration; cervicitis; en- 
dometritis ; parametritis ; exudations ; cancers polypoid ; fibroid, 
and other benign and malignant growths. 

The regular physician determines a disease, and then names 
it. using nosology as a suffix to define pathology ; thus ends their 

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investigation, for after a disease is known and named, who wants 
to know any more about it? The Eclectics determine disease by 
symptoms of the third or exciting set of causes, their investiga- 
tion terminating here, since they maintain that in forming con- 
clusions they have recognized the condition. The only difference 
of knowledge obtained from the two methods is derived by re- 
sults of their different treatments, which greatly favor the Ec- 
lectics, though I cannot believe that either system will control the 
perversions that have been developing for years, and which is the 
true etiology of the exciting symptoms. 

Medical men of authority who for ages have denied that 
foods are the cause of disease have recently pronounced the most 
harmless food to be the greatest cause. Foods act in the system 
like drugs but less pronounced. Like drugs, there are irritant 
and non-irritant foods, the non-irritants furnishing nourishment 
for maintaining health, while irritants supply nutrition but pre- 
pare the system, by weakening certain functions, for developing 
exciting symptoms. 

It is impossible for anyone to prepare himself to treat suc- 
cessfully most chronic diseases without the knowledge of how 
and what irritant foods seriously pervert certain functions of the 
system. With such a knowledge irritant foods may be pro- 
scribed, and whenever cell destruction is not too great a treatment 
adopted which may reasonably insure restoration. 

Before presenting a treatment a sketch and prognosis of a 
single case may be of interest. A woman, aged forty-five, for 
several years affected with cervicitis and endometritis and suf- 
fering with the primary symptoms, irritation, indigestion, limited 
oxidation and constipation. An examination disclosed that the 
perversions or indirect symptoms were enervation, muscular 
atony, organic condition of the circulatory system, cutis pendula, 
waxy pallor, thermal condition subnormal, chilly sensations dur- 
ing winter and the reverse in summer. The exciting symptoms 
were irritation, inflammation and hyperplasia of the cervix with 
backache, irritation, inflammation, utero-toxemia with reflex 
headaches, pain in the right ovary, passive hemorrhage and pro- 
fusive exudation from an ulcerative endometrium and endema of 
the uterus. In forming a prognosis of this case it is necessary 
to consider further perversions of the primary and indirect symp- 
toms. In the former there was mercurial perversion of the mu- 
cosa of the alimentary canal, and of the indirect symptoms the 
circulatory system was beyond repair. With these perversions 
the local conditions and reflex actions can be controlled, and the 



114 INTRA-UTERINE MEDICATION 

general health may be satisfactorily improved though never per- 
fectly restored. 

It may be thought that the local treatment of gynecological 
diseases is of greater importance than the constitutional treat- 
ment, but a well-adapted treatment which will reestablish per- 
verted conditions is indispensable 

Treatment. — When adapting a specific treatment the first act 
is to proscribe irritant foods and suggest non-irritants ; second, 
advise medicated baths, how often taken so as not to increase the 
subnormal temperature, and secure reaction with stimulant appli- 
cation. If these instructions are properly applied, irritation will 
decrease and digestion improve. Third, constipation with hyper- 
esthesia of the bowels, and especially with women who drink too 
little water, the following mild antiseptic alkaline laxative or some 
similar substitute should be given : 

Quadruple senna infusion stock Sii 

Glycerine 3j 

Bourbon or rye whisky 5j 

Misce. vSig. — One dram in a glass of hot or cold water be- 
fore breakfast every morning; at night also if necessary. This 
is an ideal preparation for controlling irritation and intestinal re- 
flexes ; restoring tonicity to the lacteal glands, overcoming hyper- 
esthesia and for maintaining normal evacuations. Fourth, if the 
patient lives on non-irritant foods the blood will become cleansed, 
but pure blood reestablishes these serious effects so slowly, which 
have been developing for years, as to require therapeutic assist- 
ance to overcome enervation, reflex pains, muscular and circula- 
tory atony, as: 

Kali phos .3x 3ii 

Distilled ext. hamamelis 3ss 

Specific medicine lobelia gtt. x 

Aqua <.-.q.s."3Ev 

Mis. Sig„ — One dram every three hours. 
With anemia, deficient oxidation and a defective condition 
of the circulatory system, prescribe : 

Ferrum phos 3x 3ii 

Specific veratrum gtt. xx 

Distilled hamamelis « 3iv 

Aqua , q. s. §jv 

Mis. Sig. — One dram every three hours. 



INTRA-UTERINE MEDICATION 115 

Local Treatment: The object of a local treatment is, first, 
to stop suffering by controlling local irritation and inflammation, 
which through reflex action may be causing supra-orbital or a 
neuralgic tooth or headache, gastric and intestinal fermentation, 
sciatica or spasmodic contractions of the rectum, pain in the back 
and at one or both ovaries, in the rectum or urethral tenesmus. 
With these conditions there are usually present a purulent, de- 
composed, specific or non-specific exudation and ulcerations fol- 
lowed by utero-toxemia, which causes insomnia, melancholia and 
insanity, profuse transpiration, plethora and sexual neurasthenia, 
reflex action and rheumatic periodicity. 

The examination and first treatment should determine the 
density, size and aperture of the cervix, location, mobility and 
depth of the uterus, whether there is hyperemia, dry or discharg- 
ing inflammation, the consistency and color of the exudation, also 
the weight, complexion, sensitiveness over the ovaries, and gen- 
eral aspect of the pelvic and abdominal walls. 

With subinvolution, retroversion and other displacements 
and edema of the uterus and pelvic tissues and accompanied with 
a thick or thin purulent exudation, the uterus is washed out with 
an alkaline antiseptic solution and alternated with a 25-35 or 50 
per cent solution of peroxide of hydrogen every second or third 
day. If there is a dry inflammation of the endometrium, which 
causes more suffering than an exudation, a treatment every third 
day will establish secretion, and if the treatments are continued 
resolution will take place. 

If there has been metrorrhagia for weeks the treatment 
should be repeated every 24 hours for a few days, then further 
apart with the two former solutions and followed by a solution 
of sulphate of iron, four to six grains to the ounce of water and 
then a pack inserted against the cervix, saturated with 3 drams 
of distil, hamamelis and 2 drams of dark pinus canadensis. 

It is well to follow the specific indication when inserting de- 
hydrating packs, for the condition of the uterus and pelvic tissues 
requires different influences, as for instance, specific Phytolacca, 
Calc. fluor and glycerine when hyperplasia and indurations of the 
cervix require absorption; specific belladonna, tincture opii and 
glycerine for hyperemia and pain; for pelvic atony, procidentia 
or retroversion, dis. hamamelis and dark pinus canadensis; for 
edema of the uterus and pelvic tissues, elaterium and pinus cana- 
densis; for hypersecretion of the cervix and vagina, powdered 
stearate of zinc. 



116 INTRA-UTERINE MEDICATION 

Metrorrhagia: It is believed that many intractable uterine 
hemorrhages are uncontrollable unless the uterus is first curetted, 
but a broad experience has proved that they can be controlled by 
intrauterine medication in connection with restoring tonicity to 
the circulatory system. Hemorrhages which occur from pyo- 
salpinx following the exit of the pus through the uterus and those 
from obliterated oviduct, due to extra-uterine pregnancy and to 
some forms of fibroma, belong to surgery. But hemorrhages re- 
sulting from breaking down of cancer tissues, some forms of 
fibroma, neglected abortions, ulcerative and vegetative growths 
of the endometrium, the menopause, defibrinated condition of the 
blood and atony of the circulation may be controlled by uterine 
medication. An expert of chronic diseases — one who is familiar 
with uterine medication — can absorb benign and even malignant 
growths of the uterus. 

A dozen or fifteen pledgets of cotton, fourth of an inch in 
size, may be saturated in a solution of per-sulphate of iron and 
shoved into the cavity of the uterus, and a large one then in- 
serted against the cervix with a string attached, and repeated 
every 24 hours for three or four days for uncontrollable hemor- 
rhages arising during the menopause. 

Some of these hemorrhages will yield to medicating the 
uterine cavity with sulphate of iron following the use of perox- 
ide and other antiseptics ; others may be controlled by injecting 
the following mixture into the uterus immediately after cleansing 
the cavity with peroxide : 

Salicylic acid drams 2 

Alcohol drams 2 

Specific belladonna, thuja and sanguinaria, of 

each drams 2 

Distilled hamamelis .ounce \y 2 

Gycerine and olive oil, of each ounce 1 

Mis. Sig. — Warm and inject two half -ounce syringefuls into 
the uterus and repeat every 48 hours. 

Hemorrhages, which are the most difficult to control, are 
met in those who exhibit a defibrinated condition of the blood, 
perverted circulation and deficient elimination. In these cases 
there is atony and relaxation of the circulatory system to that 
extent which inhibits reparative action and is too weak to respond 
to the most powerful local and internal astringents. 

There are a great many women who approach the meno- 
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exudation which ulcerates the endometrium and in connection 
with enervation, perverted circulation and edema of the uterus 
results in metrorrhagia, and if not controlled develops fibroids, 
cancers and other growths. Hemorrhages from cancer of the 
uterus, if not controlled, will develop phychasthenia, a condition 
in which the patient loses all hope of recovery or even of relief. 
The attending pyhsicians in the Berlin hospitals, some twenty- 
five years ago, kept those affected with cancer of the uterus from 
bleeding to death by the application of carbide of calcium — pow- 
dered acetylene. This is a substance used for lighting houses 
and bicycles. 

Whenever a uterine hemorrhage is difficult to control, the 
diseased part should be made thoroughly aseptic ; then 2 No. 2 
capsules should be filled with the powdered carbide of calcium 
and inserted or placed against the bleeding parts and held in posi- 
tion by a cotton tampon, the treatment repeated every 48 hours. 
This remedy controls hemorrhage, odor, and a greater part of the 
pain, as well as prolonging life. 

Procidentia and other displacements, without adhesions, are 
easily restored by local medication. Recent cases of gonorrhea 
and those in which the specific infection has not invaded the fal- 
lopain tubes are easily cured by uterine medication: i. e., if the 
patient does not know that she has the disease, but incurable if 
she knows it. Recent cases of syphilis are curable with com- 
bined treatment which prevents any further local infection, con- 
trols irritation of the alimentary canal and maintains normal 
elimination; the seriousness of this disease if known secures 
much aid when treating it. 

The field for non-surgical treatment of gynecological dis- 
eases has never been supplied, and practitioners who have never 
practiced local medication do not know what remarkable cures 
can be accomplished. Gynecological diseases all being chronic, 
the practitioner builds up a wide reputation and prevents his 
patients from visiting neighboring physicians. 

In order successfully to treat gynecological diseases, non- 
surgically, the practitioner must be able to determine and dis- 
tinguish the different effects on the system between the primary, 
indirect perversions and the exciting causes, and adapt a treat- 
ment indicated by the three groups of symptoms. 






Sodium Chlorid 

PART II 



FOREWORD 



Forty-two years of clinical observation of the effects of salt 
on the system, when used in excessive quantities, is sufficient 
proof that because of its being a food, the medical profession 
has overlooked the greatest factor of disease. As evidence, phy- 
sicians have prepared all kinds of serums, to overcome cell atony 
by an untenable short route, yet allow those affected with chronic 
diseases to continue the excessive use of salt, which produces 
cell ptosis. What amount of salt does the sytem require daily, 
and who eat excessive quantities? Everybody who eats more 
than fifteen to thirty grains daily. 

Physicians who deny these assertions, are those who have 
used salt as a medicine, and observed its temporary benefit from 
its stimulant effects, but who do not know how it increases the 
dynamic rate of the physiologic functions; and its excessive use 
disproportions the acid and alkali secretions— produces autoin- 
toxication, by diminishing the capillaries — makes the blood irri- 
tant, which develops so many forms of eczema and psoriasis, 
diseases in which the fats of the body are destroyed by salt. 

If one hundred people eat excessively of salt, they may 
exhibit seventy-five different effects. Some will have stiff joints 
— eczema — psoriasis — backache — acidosis — indigestion — dry skin 
and nervous irritation and perverted circulation, which develops 
local inflammations and growths. Others will have early im- 
potency — nymphomania — deafness — impingement of terminal 
nerves, which diminishes the capillaries, and produces nervous 
exhaustion and insanity. 

For obtaining indisputable evidence, and to substantiate 
forty- two years of clinical observation, the writer found that a 
majority suffering from different effects, recovered following 
the reduction of salt, without any treatment being applied. 

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SODIUM CHLORID. 

Formula: NaCl. Molecular Weight 58.37 

Chloride of sodium, or common table salt, is a true chemical 
compound of chlorine and sodium. Every 100 parts of pure salt 
invariably contain 39.6 parts of sodium and 60.4 parts of chlor- 
ine gas. 

Its active properties are alterative, emetic, cathartic, anti- 
septic, preservative, tonic, stimulant, vermifuge, refrigerant, as- 
tringent, irritant, and, the writer adds, aphrodisiac. 

It is the irritant, stimulating, and aphrodisiac properties of 
salt which so injuriously affect the system when eaten in exces- 
sive quantities. Its lifelong use develops the following condi- 
tions of the system, the majority of which are present, in those 
affected with chronic diseases: 

Hyperesthesia of the nerves; 

Destruction of the capillaries; 

Perverted metabolism ; 

Cyanotic sallow complexion; 

Exudation ; 

Fatigue ; 

Local aperture infection; 

Nerve impingement ; 

Predisposition to colds and growths. 

Through the unconscious effect of its irritant over-stimula- 
tion, the physiologic function of cell activity is inhibited, to an 
extent in the aged of obstruction of absorption, repair and elim- 
ination. } 

For the reason that chlorid of sodium is one of the cell 
salts, which participate in all physiologic functions and season's 
nourishment, it has always been used without limit, and consid- 
ered harmless. The amount of the different cell salts varies 
slightly, which may be observed, when the deficiencies of the 
blood occur, by the small amount required to restore its equilib- 
rium. Whenever there is an excess of one cell salt, the supply- 
ing of others does not always produce a normal ratio of the 
blood. 

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120 SODIUM CHLORIDE 

Hundreds of disappointments have occurred, with all forms 
of medication, which are due to an excess of one or more cell 
salts, obstructing an equilibrium of the blood, when deficiencies 
are supplied. Unrecognition of this fact has been, for ages, a 
stumbling-block to therapeutists, and lessened confidence in med- 
icine. The name of substances of the blood does not wholly 
correspond with those by which the cell salts are known; there- 
fore, a microscopic examination cannot show all of the cell salt 
deficiencies. 

The author has prescribed Ferrum Phos. for anemia, and 
has many times been disappointed, but when limiting the use of 
solium chlorid, results were obtained. I have given Kali Mur. 
and Kali Sulph, when positively indicated, from 3x. to 30th x. for 
months, with failure, but when sodium chlorid and salty foods 
were limited, beneficial results were obtained, as shown by their 
controlling chronic leucorrhea. 

Whenever the ratio of the acid and alkali secretions is near- 
ly normal, the supplying of cell salt deficiencies usually acts sat- 
isfactorily. 



THE ORIGINAL PROPAGANDA AGAINST SALT. 

At Springfield, Illinois, nearly thirty years ago, the author 
read an original paper at a medical convention, entitled "The 
Sodium Chlorid Habit,'' since which time he has talked and 
written against its excessive use, until some of the most eminent 
men of the medical profession are limiting its use, when treating 
chronic diseases. Some forty years ago, we noticed that some 
individuals were affected with a sore throat, others, with scalp 
incrustation, and others, with eczema, psoriasis and constipation, 
which would not respond to treatment, until the use of salt was 
diminished. These statements have been verified hundreds of 
times, but they are assertions, and the reader wants better proof, 
and to furnish it, we have seen a great many skin and functional 
diseases overcome by diminishing the use of salt, and without 
any treatment. 

Biologists have found that antiseptics and inorganic chem- 
icals interfere with tube testing research. If they interfere with 
tube testing they will delay digestion. 

How does he excessive use of salt produce disease? 

It prolongs chemical reaction during digestion ; the ferments 
then acquire an irritant state which is imperceptibly conveyed by 
the afferent nerves to the vasomotor centers. The afferent nerves, 
by reflex action of the vasomotor centers, then convey and reflex 
the stimulating irritations to the cells. The system then determine 
large quantities of mucus to overcome the irritating ferments, the 
vasomotor reflex stimulating contractions become exhausted and 
the cell relax. A repetition of prolonging of the ferment irri- 
tations produces cell ptosis and perverts the metabolic processes. 

Serums are being produced, all over the world, to perma- 
nently overcome cell ptosis, which have failed ; but when the ex- 
cessive use of sodium chlorid was reduced to the requirements 
of the system the cell, have in a few months, assumed their nor- 
mal contraction and expansion and without medication. 

A doctor's wife stated that she had been treated for twenty- 
two years by the ablest physicians of Chicago, 111., for increas- 
ing stiffness of the joints and admitted the excessive use of salt. 

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122 SODIUM CHLORIDE 

The writer suggested that she reduce the salt to a minimum 
amount; she complied and recovered perfect elasticity of her 
joints in five months and without medication. One physician in- 
jected one ounce of olive oil into the gluteal region three times 
per week for three months without benefit. This proves that 
the excessive use of salt destroys the fats in the body. 

Forty-two years of clinical observation of the effect of the 
excessive use of chlorid of sodium have conclusively proved that 
it is the greatest factor of cell ptosis, diminished capillaries and 
perversion of metabolism. 

This shows the importance, when treating chronic diseases 
of proscribing antiseptic and inorganic chemicals, and the neces- 
sity of restoring tonicity to the cells. 



CLINICAL OBSERVATION OF THE EXCESSIVE USE 

OF SALT. 



Most physicians know that diseases start from irritation, 
which develop local inflammation. It is not possible to give all 
the causes of irritation, but a few of the most frequent factors 
are improper nourishment, irritant blood, and broken ratio of 
the secretions. 

Salt is a stimulant, and its excessive use breaks the ratio of 
the digestive acid and alkali secretions, and results in an irritant 
and stimulant nutrition, which develops deficiencies in the blood. 
The reason why organic diseases are increasing, is because the 
main articles of foods have been changed, by preparation, from 
their natural condition, with irritants and stimulants, which in- 
terfere with chemical reactions. 

"If you want to avoid Bright's disease use very little salt," 
is the advice of Dr. G. Tracy, of New York. The death of 
Charles T. Yerkes and the increasing mortality in that city due 
to Bright's disease were responsible for Dr. Tracy's declaration, 
"It seems a fitting time to say something of the danger attending 
the excessive use of common table salt." Bunge claims that a per- 
son using mixed diet requires only from 1 to 2 grams (15 to 30 
grains, daily. Most people, however, consume an excessive 
amount, from 10 to 20 grams, or 150 to 300 grains. 

Professor Widal found that when a patient with kidney dis- 
ease was given 150 grains of sodium chlorid for several days, 
he increased in weight, the salt producing a dropsical condition 
resembling uremic poisoning. Professor Widal was able to make 
the dropsy appear and disappear at will, by increasing or with- 
drawing the amount of salt, showing conclusively its irritant 
effect on the kidneys. The excessive use of salt, then, obstructs 
osmotic pressure and metabolism, produces irritant blood, and 
the urine, becoming irritant in turn, irritates the kidneys, until 
inflammation is produced, resulting in Bright's disease and other 
organic conditions. 

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124 SODIUM CHLORIDE 

In the following paragraphs, are clinical observations of dis- 
eased conditions, due to the excessive use of salt, which was 
overcome, by its reduction, with or without medication. 

Mrs. J. was treated twenty-two years by several eminent 
physicians for stiffness of the neck and joints. By reducing the 
use of salt she recovered in five months. 

Mrs. B., age 36, mother of three children, suffered for five 
years with nymphomania. As a consultant I advised less salt, 
and she recovered in a few months without medication. 

Miss H 1 ., age 20, had one, and sometimes two abscesses 
around the rectum every year, and a sore or salt throat. She was 
advised to use less salt, which stopped the appearing of abscesses, 
and controlled the sore throat without medication. 

Mr. K., age 25, a singer, lost the pitch of his voice, and by 
reducing the use of salt for six months, recovered its tone. 

Mrs. M., age 42, became very deaf from the excessive use 
of salt for eighteen years. A diet freer of salt, supplemented by 
the application of a mild current of electricity, from the nape of 
the neck to the auditory aperture, or two hours at a seance, for 
fifteen days, restored her hearing. 

Mr. M., age 45, developed muscular stiffness, which incapac- 
itated him for work. He was treated six years for rheumatism. 
He was induced to use less salt and became able to work again. 

Mr. C, age 36, a superintendent of a school, was unable to 
study evenings on account of sleepiness. He used less salt with 
little benefit, but by also omitting butter, from his diet, he be- 
came able to study evenings. 

A traveling salesman, age 33, weight 240, was troubled with 
a sore throat, and after using less salt for several months, he 
recovered. His brother, from the excessive use of salt, became 
a plethoric, developed tuberculosis, and died. 

Mrs. S., age 25, had incrustation of the scalp, half of which 
disappeared in three months, after diminishing the use of salt ; 
but on resuming her former diet, the whole scalp became in- 
volved again. 

Mrs. L., age 28, developed an unnatural appetite, but by the 
use of less salt and butter for three months, the desire became 
normal. 

Mrs. A., age 50, was unconscious for three days from 
uremic poisoning, and told by three attending physicians that she 
would die with Bright's disease. By complying with the author's 
advice to eat less salt, she has fully recovered, and now, seven 
years later, is enjoying good health. 



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Mr. and Mrs. G., ages 27, were attending a chiropractor 
school, but could not grasp or retain their lessons. Both exhib- 
ited markings of the excessive use of salt, and upon diminishing 
its use, were enabled in a few weeks, to progress in their studies. 

A man, age 30, whose thigh became diseased, from a base- 
ball injury, had two operations, and his leg kept in a plaster 
paris jacket, most of the time, while under treatment for three 
years. An examination determined that he was an excessive 
user of salt. On being told that suppuration of the limb would 
never cease until he ate less salt, he heeded the advice and re- 
covered. 

Miss T. E., age 25 JU a plethoric, under treatment and advice 
for general weakness, was eating salt freely, using it as a nasal 
douche, as a bath, and taking it as a medicine. Its excessive use 
liquified her blood and destroyed the fats, until she had a pro- 
fuse and odorless perspiration and extreme prostration. By 
using less salt she recovered in a few weeks. 

Mrs. P., age 44, suffered with lumbar backache for nine 
years. Baths at sanitariums and physiological adjustments failed 
to control it. She ceased the use of the rocking chair, ate less 
salt, and was cured by six weeks of medication. 

A butcher, age 60, had frequent attacks of lumbago, and all 
the time mental inertia. By using less salt, the lumbago attacks 
ceased, and the mental faculties improved. 



SALT AS A CRIME PRODUCER. 



Eaten in excessive quantities, salt liberates too much chlor- 
ine gas with the food, is absorbed, disproportions the alkalinity 
of the blood, making it irritable, and intensifies acidity of the 
urine, to an irritant degree, that induces itching from infancy to 
puberty. The chastisement for relieving genital itching among 
children has rarely been known to remove the trouble, and par- 
ents should seek the cause before they can hope to find the cure 
for a habit seemingly harmless in childhood, but disastrous in 
many case to the period of adolescence and to later life. On ar- 
riving at the puberal age the intolerable irritant itching changes, 
exerting an aphrodisiac effect which so excites the sexual impulses 
as to pervert the thoughts, establishing a reciprocal erethism be- 
tween the mind and genital organ. A most serious injury to the 
human race is this effect of salt in producing early impotence 
by overstimulating the normal reciprocal erethism between the 
brain and the sexual organs. 



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THE ADOLESCENT AGE. 



Adolescents who acquire an early appetite for salty foods 
are generally affected with hyperesthesia of the nerves and skin, 
which indicates erotic desires often misconstrued to be the nat- 
ural promptings of instinct or evil tendencies inherited. Some 
foods exert a local aphrodisiac effect by producing acidosis, oth- 
ers by determination of blood to the generative organs. Chloride 
of sodium perverts the digestive ferments, lessening the ability 
to neutralize normal acid products of metabolism, which, when 
eliminated with the urine intensifies its acidity and locally irri- 
tates the nerves and erectile tissues of the generative organs. 

The foods that, eaten excessively, excite or develop sexual 
impulses are tea, coffee, sugar, salt, salty soup, meat and fish, 
white bread, pickles, vinegar and tobacco. The early sexual irri- 
tations produced by a diet predominating with these foods are 
the incipient factors of onanism, epilepsy, insanity, degenerates 
and murderers. Wardens of prisons and supervisors of asylums 
know that many of the inmates are annoyed by sexual excite- 
ment, and bromides and nitrate of potassiae, if given, only weaken 
still further the mental faculties. What hope have the relatives 
of such victims of a nourishment that consists of denatured, 
blended and aphrodisiac foods? 

The writer incidentally met the purchasing agent for an asy- 
lum of one of the Southern states, who, in answer to the question 
as to the relative amount of fresh and salty meats supplied the 
food, said : "About five pounds of salty to one of fresh, because 
it is a great saving." Should the reader after perusing the 
article on Salt Markings visit an asylum, he could readily detect 
the victims of the excessive use of chloride of sodium. 



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ODORLESS PERSPIRATION. 



A healthy perspiration is characterized by an inoffensive 
odor, but with anemic skin, the system may eliminate its poisons, 
as exudations from body apertures, and loose tissue as in the 
axilla. Some plethorics, who overeat, and are of uncleanly hab- 
its, may have an offensive perspiration and breath. 

The perspiration from the majority of those who are af- 
fected with chronic diseases, except growths, is odorless and is 
due to the excessive and refrigerant effect of chlorid of sodium, 
or salt, which has destroyed the fats of the system. 

Such individuals suffer with predisposition to colds, and it 
is difficult to improve their health until the fats are restored to 
the system and a normal odor to the perspiration. 

Treament. — Reduce the use of salt and salty foods to a 
minimum, eat more fats, olive oil, etc. ; take a dry towel rub 
every morning, if winter time, and anoint the whole body every 
third day with three parts olive oil and one part alcohol. This 
usually overcomes dryness, increases the perspiration with nat- 
ural odor, and restores much of the capillary circulation and 
elasticity to the skin. 



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SALT MARKINGS. 



Salt, like many other articles of nourishment, when eaten in 
excessive quantities, marks the body. Excessive drinking of beer 
has been known to mark the body by producing both plethora 
and maramus, and salt" induces these same conditions. When 
eaten in certain quantities for a few years salt in some cases 
whitens the skin, and its excessive use for a few years longer 
causes the skin to assume a blue, sallow, muddy color, and many 
grubs or blackheads to appear on the face and neck. There is 
what is known as a "salt throat," in which are exhibited alter- 
nate red and white streaks accompanied with more or less sore- 
ness. Salt is the greatest cause of dandruff with people of all 
ages. The pernicious habit of biting the finger nails is attri- 
buted to excessive salt eating. 

Another prominent marking is the red circle on the fingers 
back of the nails, the redness at that point being more pronounced 
than on other parts of the hand. Whenever it has almost or 
completely destroyed the capillary circulation of the skin and es- 
pecially that of the hand, the marks back of the nails become 
faded, necessitating a reliance on other signs, as the cyanotic 
sallow complexion, for determining its excessive use. 



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A PATHOLOGIC FOOD MARKER. 

Sodium chlorid combined with all of the other cell salts, reg- 
ulates osmosis, an excessive amount of it obstructs osmosis and 
thus perverts, more or less, every physiologic function in the 
body and especially the metabolic processes. Illness always ex- 
hibit a degree of cell ptosis; empty and diminished capillaries 
and obstructed reparative forces. Whenever therapeutics fail to 
restore health to any one he should consult the food tables to as- 
certain if he is eating an obstructive amount of salt. 

Beef, sirloin 10 to 15 grs. per eight ounces 

Beef, steak 10 to 15 grs. per eight ounces 

Lamb, chops 10 to 15 grs. per eight ounces 

Pork, chops 10 to 15 grs. per eight ounces 

Pork, chops 10 to 15 grs. per eight ounces 

Pork, chops 10 to 15 grs. per eight ounces 

Chicken, fried 10 to 15 grs. per eight ounces 

Chicken, fricassee 10 to 15 grs. per eight ounces 

An amount added to boiling meats 

Beef, boiled 25 to 30 grs. per lb. 

Beef, stew 25 to 30 grs. per lb. 

Pot, roast 25 to 30 grs. per lb. 

Fresh baked meats 

Beef, roast 20 to 25 grs. per lb. 

Pork, roast 20 to 25 grs. per lb. 

Turkey, roast 20 to 25 grs. per lb. 

Goose, roast 20 to 25 grs. per lb. 

Duck, roast 20 to 25 grs. per lb. 

Chicken, roast 20 to 25 grs. per lb. 

Amount of salt in baking 

Bread, white 80 to 120 grs. per lb. 

Bread, rye 80 to 120 grs. per lb. 

Bread, bran 80 to 120 grs. per lb. 

Bread, graham 80 to 120 grs. per lb. 

Biscuits 80 to 120 grs. per lb. 

Rolls 80 to 120 grs. per lb. 

Coffee cake 80 to 120 grs. per lb. 

Johnny cake 25 to 30 grs. per lb. 

Pie crust 20 to 25 grs. per lb. 

Oatmeal 10 to 12 grs. per dish 

Cereals 10 to 12 grs. per dish 

Peas, canned 90 to 120 grs. per lb. 

Corn, canned 90 to 120 grs. per lb. 

Beans, string 90 to 120 grs. per lb. 

Spinach, canned 90 to 120 grs. per lb. 

Pumpkin, canned 90 to 120 grs. per lb. 

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ADENOID OPERATIONS. 

Adenoid glands are being removed to improve the mental 
condition of children, but not one-half of those who show an 
inaptitude for study are affected with adenoids. More than 
thirty-five years ago I observed that the excessive use of salt 
causes inertia of the mental faculties with both children and 
adults, and during this period, hundreds of opportunities came 
up to verify this discovery. Children unconsciously acquire these 
conditions by toxic exudations, eliminated by the system, through 
the throat, which are the true causes of adenoids, atrophic, croup- 
ous, diphtheretic and catarrhal pharyngitis. 

A surplus of nourishment, which decomposes in either the 
alimentary tract or in the blood, weakens the mental faculties, but 
it has no comparison with the effect of chlorid of sodium, for in- 
hibiting the capacity to think, or to grasp knowledge and retain 
it. Principals of schools and students of various professions 
have complained that they were unable to concentrate their 
thoughts with that intensity necessary for grasping their studies. 
Those who attend night schools find it impossible to study, because 
of sleepiness. In all such cases that came under the writer's at- 
tention they were advised to reduce the use of salt and all salty 
foods, and soon were able to keep awake and make greater prog- 
ress in their studies. 



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HARDENING OF THE ARTERIES 

Hardening of the arteries is not necessarily concurrent with 
old age, for it is the effect of diminished capillaries caused by 
chemical reactions and reflex irritations in the alimentary canal. 
The irritations in the alimentary tract, by reflex action, disturb 
metabolism with improper nourishment which inhibits the nor- 
mal contraction and expansion of the cells. The overstimulation 
of the heart and arteries by the excessive use of crystallizing acids 
in sugar, caffein in tea, and coffee, chlorine in salt, nicotine in 
tobacco, and alcoholic drinks diminish the capillaries by reflex 
local determination of blood. 

Whenever from forty to eighty per cent of the capillary cir- 
culation is destroyed, metabolism is unable to maintain a normal 
nutritive standard of the arteries. Then the three coats of the 
arteries, intima, media and adventia, will become hardened and 
their elasticity destroyed by lime and other infiltered deposits. 

Treatment. — The treatment should consist in proscribing all 
stimulating foods and drinks. Potassii iodid is said to stop the 
progress of hardening, but it is doubtful as long as foods are 
eaten which diminish the capillaries and pervert metabolism. 
The fats form a part of the elastic tissues of the arteries, which 
may be restored, by the internal and external use of olive oil 
and other fats, as salt pork, from which all salt is removed, by 
boiling for three hours, and changing the water two. or three 
times. 

The diet should be mostly milk, eggs, fruit and vegetables. 
There should be very little bathing but the skin ought to be 
thoroughly rubbed with the hands and dry towels every morn- 
ing and night, the body anointed with olive oil, and followed by 
exercises for about fifteen or twenty minutes. 

When these instructions have been persistently applied the 
hardening is absorbed and the arteries resume thir original 
elasticity. 



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CAUSE OF PTOSIS 

Ptosis, or relaxation, now attracting the attention of phy- 
sicians, appears to be one more of the unsolved problems of 
pathology. Just as a piece of rubber drawn too taut often will 
lose its elasticity, or contractile force, so are the nerves con- 
sciously, or unconsciously, repeatedly overstimulated by irritant 
foods, and the cells, fibers and muscles alternately contracted and 
relaxed until ptosis is acquired. Sodium chorid, salty foods, 
coffee and granular sugar are the irritant stimulants which irri- 
tate the nerves and by reflex action, taut the cells, fibers and 
muscles until theip elasticity is exhausted. 

Of what use are elastic bandages, stockings, supporters and 
pessaries, which exert a continuous pressure, without any hope 
of restoring the elasticity to the cells, fibers and muscles ? When 
the irritant and overstimulating foods are properly reduced, ton- 
icity or elasticity may be restored to the cells and fibers by taking 
the following: 

5 Calcarea fluor 3X .Z SS 

Distil. Hamamelis Z SS 

Aqua q. s. ..--..« OZ IV. 

M. Sig. : One dram every three hours, 
supported by dry rubs every morning. 



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DANDRUFF 

Dandruff is defined as "fine brawny scales of epidermis 
caused by dermatitis." 

In order to remove the cause of dandruff one must know 
the cause of dermatitis. Foods, which cause indigestion or centric 
irritation, and imperceptible reflex action, or contractions deter- 
mine blood from the capillaries, to the larger vessels. There is 
stagnation of blood, with its determination, and an accumulation 
of C02, or carbon dioxid, followed by fermentation of tissues, 
which develops inflammatory action. 

To prevent dandruff the dermatitis should be controlled by 
correcting the diet and not suppressed by applications. 



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IRRITANT URINE 

To comprehend fully the wide range of the effects of salt on 
the system, during a lifetime, single experiences will be given, 
representative of hundreds of cases, which may be verified by 
observing the action on those who have eaten excessive amounts. 

A mother stated that her little daughter, aged two years, 
would frequently manipulate her genital organs, and was unable 
to control the habit. The parent was advised to reduce the 
amount of butter and other salty foods in the child's diet, and in 
a week's time the irritant effect of the urine became so modified 
that the intensejtching ceased, and the habit was overcome. 

A girl, aged eleven, often found practicing masturbation, 
was fond of ham, bacon, butter and other highly salted foods. 
The mother reduced such foods, and the girl was given two elec- 
trical treatments of two hours' duration, which broke up the 
reciprocal erethism between the brain and the genitals. 

On being called to see a girl, aged twelve, who had a fever 
and sore throat and whose fingers and complexion indicated the 
excessive use of salt, I informed the mother that her daughter 
practiced onanism. At my next visit the mother stated that she 
had obtained a confession from her daughter sustaining my 
statement. A change to less salty foods resulted in a mastery of 
the habit. 

Another mother stated that she had remonstrated with her 
son (aged eleven) for several years to stop handling his genitals, 
were inibited, so modifying the irritant effect of the urine that 
The boy, who had been circumcised when a child, told her that 
he could not stop the habit because of the intense itching of 
those organs. Foods containing excessive quantities of salt 
the habit. 

A woman from a neighboring state wanted an abortion per- 
formed on her daughter, justifying her request by stating that 
the girl should not be blamed for her condition, for since twelve 
years of age she had been affected with nymphomania. From 
childhood to the age of nineteen she wanted all of her food very 
salty, and she often ate salt between meals. For a quarter of an 

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136 SODIUM CHLORIDE 

inch back of the nails her fingers exhibited red circles, and her 
general cyanotic sallow complexion confirmed her acknowledg- 
ment. The mother's request was indeed justifiable, for the 
girl's shattered nervous system and mental faculties were evi- 
dences of a pitiful condition. The mildest current of electricity 
was applied several times for two hours at a seance. This 
treatment, in conjunction with the proper diet, controlled the 
erethism of the generative organs, cured the nymphomania, and 
restored her nerves to a normal condition. 

A Chicago practitioner relates his experience with a young 
married woman, aged nineteen, who was affected with chronic 
cystitis and nymphitis. She had previously been treated in and 
out of hospitals by a number of eminent physicians with scarce- 
ly any relief. She was under his care for some time without 
improvement, when he remembered what the writer had told him 
about the effect of salt. He then proscribed all salty foods and 
continued the treatment, which had hitherto failed but which 
now overcame the cystitis in ten days and gave great relief to 
the nymphitis. 

A man, fifty years of age, but who appeared seventy, affect- 
ed with nervous exhaustion and impotency, asked if his health 
could be improved and his nervous system reinvigorated. In 
early life reciprocal erethism had so occupied his thought as to 
induce impotency at the age of forty. He was advised to avoid 
ham, bacon, dried beef, butter, salted fish, and to reduce other 
salty foods. The mildest current of electricity was then applied 
for three hours at a treatment, — the anode to the nape of the 
neck and cathode to the genitals — which revivified the nerves 
and restored tonicity to the weak muscular and circulatory sys- 
tems, giving him a new lease of life. This proves that the 
amount of salt he had eaten prevented his recovery at the hands 
of many eminent physicians. 

A married woman, aged thirty-eight, of a nervous tempera- 
ment, and mother of three children whose ages were fourteen, 
twelve and eight, cultivated an appetite for salty foods which, 
four years after the last birth, excited her sexual impulses to 
an extent that nymphomania was developed, causing her to 
worry almost to the point of insanity, over what she termed a 
degrading condition. She was promised relief by several prac- 
titioners and many drugless healers, but failed to obtain it. 
Salty foods were proscribed, and the mildest current of elec- 
tricity was applied for two hours at a time, from the nape of 
the neck to the clitoris, controlling the erethism and saving her 
from the asylum. 



SODIUM CHLORIDE 137 

From unquestionable authority it has been stated that in 
orphanages it is frequently necessary to tie up the hands of the 
children for protection. 

A schoolteacher stated that she had seen both male and 
female children manipulate their genitals during school hours, 
and some much oftener than others, indicating perhaps that 
salty foods were rnpre prevalent in some families than in others. 



ACCUMULATION OF SALT 

Medical writers state that sodium chloride is all elim- 
inated, except what is appropriated by the economy of the 
system. However, when eaten in excessive quantities, for 
long periods, it perverts metabolism, and when the metabolic 
processes are obstructed the system cannot eliminate the 
excessive salt, for it then is incapable of throwing off its 
other waste products. In early life the system is able for 
years to eliminate and control imperceptible irritations pro- 
duced by salt, but at last the neves acquire hyperesthesia, 
then the cells and tissues become more sensitive to reflex 
action, overstimulating and relaxing effects. 

This weakening influence of salt affects all of the arte- 
rial and venous vessels, until they are unable either to elim- 
inate it, or to transmit enough mucous for controlling its irri- 
tations. Then the system sets up defenses against its absorp- 
tion. Nearly all elderly people and those who are affected 
with growths have a deficiency of gastric acid, and are fre- 
quently troubled with flatulency, bladder and prostatic irri- 
tations from alkaline urine. 



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SALT AS A REFRIGERANT 

Salt eaten in excessive quantities acts as a refrigerant 
irritant to the blood. Thus it produces hyperesthesia of the 
nerves, diminishes osmotic transudation, induces anemia, 
and as a factor to produce irritations and reflex contractions, 
develops cell ptosis and destroys the capillaries. 

As long- as foods predominate, which produce these con- 
ditions of the system, there is little hope of a recovery from 
chronic diseases. What is needed are tables giving the 
approximate amount of salt to the ounce of foods, so that, 
after trying various treatments and despairing of recovery, 
by examining the tables it can easily be estimated whether 
one is eating an amount which prevents restoration. 

Chemists have endeavored to analyze the amount of salt 
blended with foods, but have found that it cannot be accu- 
rately accomplished. The writer has therefore taken butter 
as a unit of comparison. One pound of butter contains one 
ounce or 480 grains of salt, and when divided by 16 equals 
30 grains to the ounce. 

The following table gives the approximate amount of 
salt per ounce as estimated by taste comparison : 

Ham, raw 120 grains per ounce 

Ham, fried 100 grains per ounce 

Ham, roasted 100 grains per ounce 

Ham, broiled 100 grains per ounce 

Ham, potted 100 grains per ounce 

Ham, puffs 50 grains per ounce 

Ham, boiled 75 grains per ounec 

Bacon, raw 100 grains per ounce 

Bacon, fried 90 grains per ounce 

Bacon, broiled 90 grains per ounce 

Bacon, steamed 90 grains per ounce 

Salt Pork, pickled 120 grains per ounce 

Salt Pork, fried 100 grains per ounce 

Salt Pork, boiled with beans or cabbage 75 grains per ounce 

Salt Pork, boiled 4 hours and water changed 2 or 

3 times 15 grains per ounce 

Beef, dried and smoked 200 grains per ounce 

Beef, prepared with gravy 100 grains per ounce 

Beef, prepared in hash 75 grains per ounce 

Tripe, pickled 100 grains per ounce 

Tripe, fried 75 grains per ounce 

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ELASTICITY OF TISSUES 

Obstetricians are frequently asked why the injuries of 
childbirth are increasing parallel with organic diseases. Sci- 
entifically, "elasticity is that property of a body which causes 
it to resist deformation, and afterwards, to recover its orig- 
inal shape and size." Considering the injuries occurring dur- 
ing parturition, the elasticity of the genital organs of woman, 
do not conform to this definition. 

The aforesaid injuries cannot be ascribed to the frequent 
use of the forceps, for the ratio of injuries from their use was 
less at an earlier day. Chemically prepared foods possess 
the stimulant and irritant properties of medicines, although 
in a modified form, but when eaten in excessive quantities are 
capable of overcoming elasticity of tissues. 

Illustrations: A woman, age forty, an excessive salt 
eater, had been treated by many eminent physicians for 
twenty-two years for inelasticity of the muscles and tissues. 
An ounce of olive oil was injected into the gluteus muscles 
three or four times a week for several months without relief. 
I advised the cessation of treatment and the reduction of salt, 
and in five months she regained elasticity of the tissues. A 
farmer near Green Bay, Wis., was treated for rheumatism six 
years. The reduction of the amount of salt and salty foods 
restored elasticity to his muscles without treatment. 

Considering the restoration of such pronounced cases of 
inelasticity, who can doubt that the frequent rupture of the 
cervix and perineum results from the destruction of fats and 
the removal of elasticity in the muscles by chemically pre- 
pared foods? 



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SALT AS A STIMULANT 

As a stimulating food, salt is without an equal, in pro- 
ducing growths and degenerative conditions of the various 
organs. These injuries are developed by its continual stim- 
ulation and alternating relaxation of the abdominal and pelvic 
muscles and vessels until the circulatory system is unable 
to carry on constructive repair of the organs. A further ex- 
ample of its effect on the abdomen are the various abdominal 
hernias, floating kidneys and pelvic procidentia. When 
snuffed into the nostrils, for controlling nasal hyperemia and 
inflammation, or for removing catarrhal exudations, its stim- 
ulation induces another injury. Under such treatment the 
vessels and Schneiderain membrane acquire a watery or 
edematous condition, that induces stenosis of the nasal pas- 
sages, producing more injurious effects for operations. 

Besides the excessive use of salt in their nourishment, 
individuals snuff it through their nostrils, use it in the bath, 
or are known to take it internally in doses of five grains in a 
half glass of water every two hours for months, or fifteen or 
more grains in a glass of water every morning for indefinite 
periods. 

What are the conditions of those who have formed the 
habit of using too much salt? Some are in a state of collapse 
from exhaustion. Many are plethorics and exhibit general 
relaxation; their skin and flesh hang on the body flabbily; 
the least exertion causes the transpiration to pour profusely 
through the skin, showing that the cells, tissues and glands 
of their whole organization are waterlogged or in an edema- 
tous condition. The pulse is weak and rapid ; the complexion 
varies from an extreme pallor to a cyanotic purple or muddy 
sallow. The circulation of the extremities presents a motley 
stasis, similar to the dapples on an iron-gray horse; the skin 
is covered with a moist, clammy perspiration. Their appetite 
is one that can never be satisfied. The mucous membrane of 
the throat may be compared to sliced bacon, with alternating 
streaks of lean and fat, or red and white; the skin encircling 
the fingernails is highly reddened. 

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Physicians who have met many cases of hemorrhage, or 
post partum, have not offered any reason why some women, 
during or after childbirth and abortion, lose very little blood 
and others lose their lives at these times by an uncontrollable 
sanguinary loss. There are few, in fact, who know that ex- 
cessive overstimulation with chlorid of sodium is always 
followed by relaxation, which removes the elasticity of the 
arteries and veins almost to a degree of paresis, and that the 
most powerful astringents are unable to contract or close the 
gapping vessels that have been freshly opened. 

Another serious effect of overstimulation caused by 
sodium chlorid, is blindness. Whenever examining individ- 
uals affected with cataract, the writer permits no opportunity 
to escape for determining the etiology or primary cause, 
which could possibly induce oapacity of the lenses. There is 
little difficulty in determining the destruction of the capilla- 
ries and atony of the circulatory system from overstimulation 
and resultant relaxation by salt. The opaque condition of the 
lens is due to a deposit of calcium, and whenever the circula- 
tion becomes too weak to nourish the eyes, cataracts will 
form in some individuals. 

Hundreds of intractable diseases are generated by over- 
stimulation and resultant relaxation. As an instance Angina 
may be cited, and determined as : "Any disease marked by 
spasmodic suffocative attacks. The relative condition of 
these diseases is given and accompanied with their imme- 
date causes, as: A. acuta, A. simplex, sore throat, A. crusis, 
due to arterial obstruction of the limbs, A. laryngea, laryn- 
gitis, A. lugwigii, purulent metritis seated around the sub- 
maxillary gland, A. pectoris, paroxysmal thoracic pain, with 
suffocation and syncope, due to vasomotor spasm/' The eti- 
ology of these Anginas is irritation and overstimulation, and 
was primarily generated years ago, followed by several inter- 
mediate factors and by aggravation of the blood, which ulti- 
mately developed into what is recognized as immediate cause. 

Another instance of its injurious effects of stimulation 
and power to induce atony of the circulation is appearing of 
so many serious conditions of the lower extremities, which 
are not produced by tight shoes but by a weak circulation 
and the habit of crossing the legs. With a normal circula- 
tion this habit is not a factor in destroying the capillaries, 
inducing neuralgias, rhumatism, edema, dropsy and pseudo- 
sarcoma of the popliteal space. Women have sometimes been 



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advised to take from five grains to a tablespoonful of salt in 
a glass of warm water every morning for controlling what 
they thought to be stomach and intestinal irritations, with 
ensuing headaches, whereas a uric acid condition of the blood 
was determined as the cause of the headache. It is evident 
that such a large quantity of salt and water taken up by the 
blood would certainly modify the uric acid condition. In a 
few months following the enormous use of salt these women 
presented increased weight or plethora, capilliary stasis and 
atony of the circulation, rapid weak pulse, skin covered with 
a profuse and odorless transpiration, craving appetite and 
constipation, nervousness and great exhaustion. 

The arthritic form of rheumatism, accompanied with 
deposits of uric acid crystals, is another instance of the inju- 
rious effect of salt on the circulation. Arthritis resists the 
best-known treatments, but with the circulation corrected by 
haemospasia, the uric acid crystals and edema are quickly 
absorbed, resulting in restoration of the joints. 



NYMPHOMANIA 

The following conditions have been attributed as factors 
of nymphomania: Pin worms, adherent clitoris, anomalies 
of the urine, reflexes from the ovaries, masturbation and erotic 
thinking. If any one of these conditions is present, it is due 
to local irritation, and the cause of the irritant not well known. 
Individuals with a delicate nervous system, whose nourish- 
ment consists excessively of foods which exert an aphrodisiac 
influence, are liable to this disease. Tea, coffee, sugar, 
salt and salty foods produce an alkali deficit of the blood, and 
break the ratio of the systemic secretions. The secretions 
then produce hyperesthesia of the nervous system, and sensi- 
tization of the clitoris. Sexual promptings become so per- 
sistent and irresistible that the individual is unable to repress 
the local sensory stimuli or to control the thoughts. 

The asylums contain many affected with nymphomania 
whose nourishment perpetuates their pitiable condition. 

Treatment. — These cases are easily cured if the aphrodis- 
iac foods are inhibited, the electropositive held against the 
clitoris and the electronegative over the cervical vertebrae, 
and the mildest, electrical current applied for from one to two 
hours at a seance and repeated every four or five days for 
several times. 

The secretions become nonirritant to the sensitized part, 
and with their ratio restored, the irresistible promptings di- 
minish and the electrical current breaks up the reciprocal ere- 
thism between the brain and genital organs. 



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FOOD MARKS THE CHARACTER OF MAN 

Every now and then a minister who is not familiar with 
the aphrodisiac effects of chlorid of sodium and other foods, 
expresses himself in our newspapers like this : "At the thresh- 
old of our child's school; — what shall we demand of the 
school to which we send the boy or girl whose life means so 
much to us, and with whose character and career we would 
bless the world? The first thing we must demand, if we 
would be true to any of the interests, is purity and loftiness 
of personal character. President Eliot has mentioned as a 
fifth book on his five-foot shelf, which is to afford the reader 
of these books the essentials of a liberal education, Milton's 
Tractate on Education. We have three hundred years of the 
influence of John Milton. He has had a mighty influence on 
theology." But of what avail to the human race is a scientific 
knowledge of God and his relation to man so long as some 
unforseen cause, like aphrodisiac foods, compels it to form 
degrading, social and irresistible habits from the cradle to the 
tomb? 

Ancient history proves that character has never been 
able to protect people of any age from obtaining relief for 
their erotic and diseased desires. In Chapter XIX of Genesis, 
for example, we read that Lot entertained two angels who 
informed him that the Lord had sent them to destroy Sodom 
and Gomorrah and commanded : "Arise, take thy wife, and 
two daughters which are here, lest they be consumed in the 
iniquity of the city." And when outside of the city they were 
again commanded: "Escape to the mountains lest thou be 
consumed." It appears that during the destruction of Sodom 
and Gomorrah Lot's wife disobeyed the command to her hus- 
band, "Look not behind thee," and she became a piller of salt. 
Why was Lot's wife thus dealt with unless her sympathies 
were with the wickedness of Sodom and Gomorrah which 
tempted her to behold the terrible fate of loved ones? 

Seeking, in the 20th Century, for a cause which led to 
the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah, we find that no other chem- 

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ical used as food, has any comparison with sodium chlorid as 
an excitement of the sexual impulses to an irresistible degree. 
Who, then, can doubt that the pillar of salt was created as an 
emblem symbolizing the cause for the destruction of Sodom 
and Gomorrah and as a warning to future generations against 
practicing their sins ? The Lord could have turned Lot's wife 
into a gold, stone, iron, brass or silver pillar, but probably salt 
was chosen as a reminder that its abusive use had led to the 
degradation of the children of God. 



Acid and Alkali Secretions 

^ PART III. 



FOREWORD 



Every physician has had an opportunity to add his moiety 
to pathology, but if he fails to offer anything for future use, 
he must be considered an imitator. A newly born child pos- 
sesses the acid and alkali secretions and at the first breath of 
oxygen the physiologic functions are started by an appro- 
priate dynamic rate for maintaining life and development. 
During adult life various combination of foods fluctuate these 
secretions to extremes. They then become stimulating irri- 
tants, which increase the dynamic rate of the physiologic 
functions beyond a constructive or allotted action. 

Human electricity fluctuates exactly as the acid and 
alkali secretions assume extreme conditions. We find the 
ratio of these secretions broken in persons who are affected 
with degenerative growths. This emphasizes the necessity 
for restoring the ratio of the secretions when treating growths 
and other intractable diseases. Also for becoming familiar 
with the foods which disproportion these secretions. 

It is difficult to comprehend the advantages for deter- 
mining idiosyncratic conditions until one learns, by clinical 
observations, how stimulant foods diminish the capillaries, 
induce hyperesthesia of the nerves, break the ratio of the 
secretions and increase the dynamic rate of the physiologic 
functions. 

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Under this heading some important functional effects of 
the human organism will be discussed for the purpose of 
showing their relationship to health and their injurious effect 
for producing disease when acquiring hyperacidity or hyper- 
alkalinity. Writers have given very little consideration to 
these important builders and health regulators. Close obser- 
vation of their regulating functions should convince one of 
their value to health through maintaining their natural pro- 
portion. 

The blood elaborates these secretions, and when the 
system is supplied with an excess of acid nourishment the 
acid secretions of the lungs, stomach, skin and urine acquire 
hyperacidity. With the acid secretions intensified for a 
length of time, there will be acid irritations of the stomach, 
itching, eruptions, or eczematous conditions of the skin; itch- 
ing, burning or distressing sensations of the urinary passages. 
People thus affected are very nervous, for when these secre- 
tons acquire extreme conditions and are transuded through 
the tissue meshes, they start reflex irritations producing ener- 
vation. Experience has proved that when hyperacidity is 
overcome all local irritations and general nervousness cease. 

The blood elaborates the alkaline secretions also, and 
when the system is furnished with an excess of alkaline nutri- 
ment for some time the parotid and stomach glands, liver, 
pancreas, intestines and the urine acquire hyperalkalinity of 
these secretions. With these conditions present, irritation is 
the predominating symptom, for the intensified alkaline secre- 
tions of the parotid and stomach glands weaken the gastric, 
or acid, juice, resulting in fermentation, irritation and indi- 
gestion. There will be fermentation, irritation, intestinal 
indigestion and reflex spasmodic contractions of the bowels, 
which obstructs peristalsis and induces one form of consti- 
pation. The irritations are usually more intensified by 

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extreme alkalinity than by hyperacidity, for the itching of 
the skin is often unbearable and the urinary irritations soon 
induce tenesmus and frequent micturition, which rapidly 
exhausts the nervous system. 

If the blood elaborates an excess of alkaline secretions 
for a period in infants, middle-aged or old people the dele- 
terous effect on the nervous system is noticeable by local or 
general tremor. When the blood is in an extreme alkaline 
condition it is unable to maintain an equilibrium of the cell 
salts and will result in deficiencies, as proved by restoration 
when the indicated salts were supplied. Extreme conditions 
of the secretions overstimulate the circulation and excite the 
nervous system, resulting in reflex contractions and alter- 
nating relaxations, which produce enervation and arteriscle- 
rosis. 

It is a well-known fact that those affected with a straw- 
colored complexion, tuberculosis, fibroid tumors and cancers 
nearly always exhibit a deficiency of acids. This, can be veri- 
fied by noticing the improvement when acids are supplied. 
There is a law which governs the chemical effects of hyper- 
acidity and hyperalkalinity: alkalies darken the flesh and 
skin; acids whiten flesh and fades the skin. A bad complex- 
ion may also be present with excessive acidity of the system 
resulting from coffee-drinking and perverted circulation, or 
Addison's disease. 

Laboratory experts advocate an examination of the blood, 
urine, and secretions of the stomach and bowels of anyone 
who is affected with a disease difficult to diagnose, in order 
to determine the trouble scientifically. Those suffering with 
intractable stomach troubles, resulting from the abuse of 
calomel or mercury, and from deformo-anthritis, have taken 
these examinations and been treated as indicated without 
obtaining any permanent benefit. Instead of examining for 
micro-organism, why not determine the extreme degree of 
these secretions ? When abnormal they are irritants and cause 
reflex irritations, perverting the acid and alkali ratio, which 
inhibits cell osmosis. Can there be any doubt but that dis- 
turbed cell osmosis is the greatest primary factor of many 
undetermined diseases? 

Physicians may be excusable for overlooking hyper- 
acidity and hyperalkalinity as the greatest incipient factors 
of hundreds of unsolved problems of the system. Admitting 
they are excusable reminds one of Dr. Andrew Jackson Howe, 



150 ACIDITY AND ALKALINITY 

an eminent surgeon and writer of the Eclectic School, who 
wrote that "the science of medicine is full of mysteries; so 
full that the mind of one man can master but few of them. 
The student of medicine need not, like Alexander weeping for 
more countries to conquer, grieve over problems already 
solved; there are enough unsolved to gratify the ambitions 
of a thousand generations." 

There should be no important weight given to the old, 
obsolete classification of foods, as "proteid, carbohydrates, 
fats, mineral matter and water," for every one may be so im- 
pregnated with stimulant foods as to destroy the ratio of the 
secretions. Experience obtained from treating chronic dis- 
eases, for nearly forty years, has convinced the writer, that 
with the normal ratio of these secretions maintained, the lin- 
ing mucosa of the various organs scarcely ever ulcerate at 
any stage of life. With age these secretions are more liable 
to permanent perversions, which result in ulceration, growths 
and degenerative tissues. 

The human organism develops hundreds of diseases, of 
which a microscopic examination of the blood, contents of 
the stomach and intestines, will not disclose their cause. For 
instance, in pernicious anemia, an examination of the blood 
may determine deficient quantity and quality of the blood but 
not the cause of its deficiency. Suppose that in the case of 
an individual affected with pernicious anemia, who has unfor- 
tunately subsisted on a diet which generated hyperalkalinity, 
a microscopic examination determines that the red cells are 
diminished, and the leukocytes increased; this is nosology, 
not etiology. 

Shall we go on prescribing for leukanemia, iron, arsenic 
and sulphur, and in a short time write death certificates and 
continue to accept conditions determined by the microscope 
as causes? Is the majority of physicians ready to accept 
laboratory diagnosis, for determining diseased conditions — 
at the expense of their discriminating faculties, becoming ob- 
solete from lack of use and self-reliance? Recent laboratory 
examinations and medical teaching have certainly presented 
the greatest factors for developing medical nihilism. 

When one learns what foods produce acidosis and hyper- 
alkalinity, or disproportion the ratio of the secretions, he 
quickly sees why indicated remedies fail. The recital of a 
few cases may show why physicians are so often disappointed 
with an indicated remedy. 



ACIDITY AND ALKALINITY 151 

Mrs. E. X., aged forty-two, had for years eaten an alka- 
line diet and scarcely tasted acids. She worked in a tempera- 
ture of from 95° to 110° without perspiring; tongue covered 
with a nasty, pasty whitish coating mixed with yellow, and 
little appetite, indicating sulphite of sodium and nux vomica. 
Her complexion was dark and sallow, bowels irregular, fer- 
mentation, indigestion, flatulency and hyperalkalinity present. 
These conditions developed a cancer in the posterior wall of 
the uterus. She was given sulphite of sodium, nux vomica, 
and a preoaration of pepsin without obtaining any relief. Then 
forty drops of dilute hydrochloric acid was given in an e^ 
beaten up in a glass of cream and milk, taken before meals 
morning and night and accompanied with one-sixth of her 
diet of fruit acids. The tongue cleared, digestion improved 
and flatulency ceased ; the complexion became fair, fatigue 
changed to vigor, and excitation of the nervous system dis- 
appeared. The local treatment of the cancer consisted of 
medicating the cavity of the uterus with a solution of iron 
sulphate and wetting a piece of gauze in the same, which was 
inserted into the uterine cavity and left there for forty-eight 
hours. Packs wetted with Epsom salt and Phytolacca, as an 
absorbent, were inserted against the cervix and renewed 
every second day. The supplying of acid foods restored the 
normal proportions to the secretions, and physiological osmo- 
sis to the cells, with a renewal of the reparative forces, which 
aided the absorption of the cancer, and recovery. 

An elderly gentleman, affected with prostatocystitis for 
more than eight years, who lived on foods which broke the 
ratio of the secretions and induced hyperacidity: Four dif- 
ferent physicians analyzed his urine for albumen, sugar phos- 
phates and indicans, but no degree of acidity was mentioned, 
merely acid reaction. This patient had taken alkaline reme- 
dies and a great variety of specifics for controlling irritation 
and inflammation, with only temporary relief; for indicated 
remedies fail to cure until the diet regulates the ratio of the 
secretions. Specific remedies may restore, or increase, elimi- 
nation which will temporarily change the ratio of the secre- 
tions, for many of them contain acids, alkalies and chemical 
salts similar to other plants, but they scarcely ever perma- 
nently restore the normal proportion to the secretions equal 
to a proper diet. 

The following foods which intensify acids in the system 
were nrescribed : Salt, saltv fish and meats, denatured white 
bread, butter, coffee, refined sugar, vinegar, pickles, beer and 



152 ACIDITY AND ALKALINITY 

acid wines. And the following foods that maintain the ratio 
of the acid and alkaline secretions were suggested: Fresh 
beef, lamb and fish boiled or broiled and seasoned with very 
little or no salt, boiled and baked potatoes in their jackets, 
rye and graham bread, beans cooked without meat, fresh raw 
vegetables, or boiled without meat, breakfast foods cooked 
one or more hours like cream of wheat, Pettyjohn's food and 
oatmeal with cream and milk, with or without light yellow 
sugar; whole wheat flour mush and puffed wheat with cream 
and milk; ripe acid berries and other fruits equal to one-fifth 
or sixth of each meal. These foods restored the normal ratio 
of the secretions, that in a few months resulted in the re- 
covery of this man from a disease considered incurable in 
aged men. 

A male child, aged two and one-half years, had wetted 
his bed and diapers so often for a year, and was so restless 
nights that his parents were worn out and distracted. At 
every micturition spasmodic contractions of the bladder and 
urethra elicited screams. He was under treatment for a year, 
with his urine examined three different times by three prac- 
titioners who pronounced his water normal. A specimen of 
his urine was brought to the writer. I did not analyze it 
but merely observed its floculency and touched it with the 
blue litmus paper, which exhibited hyperalkalinity. The fol- 
lowing prescription was prepared and given to the child: 

Dilute hydrochloric acid, drams V 

Aqua, ounces IV 

M. Sig. : One dram, and half of an e^ 
beaten up with half a glass of milk before 
morning and night meals. 

He was coaxed to eat a little ripe acid fruit with his 
milk diet, and the above prescription brought relief after 
the third dose, and a perfect cure in four weeks. 

By observing the effects of disproportioned secretions 
in the system we solved the problem, through reflex irritation, 
of enuresis and why it does not always yield to specific reme- 
dies. Again, human milk is a secretion, and with the secre- 
tions of the mother in a state of hyperalkalinity, the phos- 
phoric acid is so reduced in her milk, as to cause the infant 
indigestion and flatulent colics. 

A school teacher, aged thirty-five, affected with tenesmus 
and frequent urination for five years, with only temporary 
relief; the floculency of her urine and the litmus test deter- 
mined alkalinity. The dilute hydrochloric acid and an e^ 



ACIDITY AND ALKALINITY 153 

beaten up with a glass of cream and milk before meals morn- 
ing and night gave immediate relief and cured her trouble 
in five weeks. 

Another teacher, aged twenty-two, had been troubled for 
several winters with what practitioners termed "winter 
eczema." The pruritis involved the entire body and fre- 
quently prevented her teaching. The litmus paper disclosed 
extreme alkalinity of the urine; but thirty drops of dilute 
hydrochloric acid with the egg, cream and milk gave imme- 
diate relief and controlled the intense itching in six days. 

It is to be hoped that physicians will give as much con- 
sideration to the extreme degree of acidity and alkalinity as 
has been given, heretofore, to albumen, sugar and micro- 
organisms of the secretions. For there are few ideas that 
have given the writer as much satisfaction, as determining 
the ratio of the secretions when meeting such intractable dis- 
eases as rheumatism, pernicious anemia, eczema, prostatocys- 
titis, enuresis, insanity, fibrous and cancerous deposits, diabetes 
and nephritis. 



ACID AND ALKALI SECRETIONS 

The medical profession has never fully recognized the 
importance of the acid and alkali secretions, as the greatest 
involuntary participants of all physiologic functions. The 
acid and alkalies are the most abundant and important secre- 
tions of the system, which combine with oxygen and start life 
and development at birth. The secretions may fluctuate 
slightly, without injury to the health, but when their ratio 
is broken for months and years, restoration is impossible until 
their proportions are more nearly re-established. 

The acid secretions predominate in the brain, lungs, skin, 
stomach and urine; the alkalies in the blood, saliva, bile pan- 
creas and intestinal juices. Such an equal division of the acid 
and alkalies is sufficient proof that they possess certain pro- 
portions for producing electrical energy and maintaining 
osmotic pressure and metabolism. Whenever their ratio is 
broken for some time, they will appear intensified, or as defi- 
cits, in each others field. 

About 2,000 years ago, Paracelsus first described the 
four cardinal symptoms of inflammation as "pain, heat, red- 
ness and swelling," but he did not tell how it developed. We 
now know that whenever the acid and alkali secretions be- 
come intensified, their ratio being broken, they acquire an 
irritant state, and that perceptible or imperceptible irritation 
produces paretic and stagnated blood vessels, accumulation of 
C0 2 , gas, fermentation of tissue and inflammation. 

Dr. Schuessler likewise discovered that disease is pro- 
duced by deficiencies of the cell salts in the blood, but he 
omitted to state the origin of these deficiencies. When the 
ratio of the secretions is broken, new chemical combinations 
form in the system, and create deficiencies of the cell salts, 
which in turn produce symptoms indicating the required cell 
salts, but when supplied, often fail to restore the ratio of the 
secretions. 

Dr. J. M. Scudder found that certain symptoms indicated 
special remedies, which usually controlled the condition, but 

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ACIDITY AND ALKALINITY 155 

occasionally failed, being unable to restore the equilibrium of 
the secretions. Hundreds of serums have been devised for 
correcting- certain conditions, but are found to control only a 
certain per cent of the particular disease when the ratio of the 
secretions is not broken. The extreme changes of the secre- 
tions are why bacteriologic tests produce several negatives, 
and in a few days, positive results. 

The acid and alkalies are incompatibles of mercury, and 
when the latter is deposited in the bones and tissues, a cold 
or change of diet may break the ratio of the secretions and 
produce symptoms that have been determined as malarial or 
some other cachexia. ^ The blood exerts an irritant effect on 
the nervous system corresponding to the degree and length of 
time that the ratio is broken. When the acid and alkali se- 
cretions have been disproportioned for a long time inflamma- 
tion is produced in some organ, proving conclusively how 
organic diseases develop. 

Pathology is overflowing with recent discoveries of zone 
and reflex irritations, which is ascribed, by the author, to the 
irritant effect of the secretions, conveyed by the sympathetic 
nerve. The reflex functions of the great sympathetic nerve 
have given it such importance that Dr. E. H. Pratt has chris- 
tened it the "life wire." This "life wire" obtains its electrical 
energy from the combination of acids, alkalies, oxygen and 
nourishment, but when the ratio of the secretions is broken, 
resistance is diminished. Intensified acids or alkalies produce 
anemia and dry skin by reflex irritation and pervert meta- 
bolism. 

One person's tongue may indicate acidity, in typhoid 
fever, and if not modified by a sodium other remedies will not 
exert their normal action. Another person's tongue exhibits 
alkalinity (red dry streak in the center), and if hydrochloric 
acid is withheld, other remedies exert little or no effect for 
they are unable to restore the ratio of the secretions. 

The following clinical observations representing hundreds 
of cases substantiate these statements : 

A woman, age 39, was treated for rheumatism fifteen 
months at three different hospitals and with baths at Mt. 
Clemens, without relief. Her diet produced extreme alkalin- 
ity and its irritant effect perverted the circulation. She was 
given hydochloric acid Gtt. xxx. mixed with an egg, beaten 
up with cream and milk added, to fill a glass, before the morn- 
ing and evening meals, which restored the ratio of the secre- 



156 ACIDITY AND ALKALINITY 

tions. Then — Bryonia Gtt. X., Belladonna Gtt. X., Podophl- 
lum 3ss. Aqua q. s. Oz. IV. Misc. Sig. : One dram every three 
hours overcame her rheumatism. 

Mrs. M. W., age 35, suffered with acute cystitis for three 
weeks, her urine exhibiting alkalinity. Two doses of the acid 
controlled it. 

Mrs. F. C, age 25, had urinated 30 times every 24 hours 
for four years, various treatments giving little or no relief. 
Her urine showed alkalinity. She was restored to normal con- 
dition by six doses of the acid drink. 

Mrs. B. S., age 53, urinated several times every night. 
The urine's reaction was alkaline. The acid prescription 
enabled her to hold the urine all night. 

Mrs. L., age 38, mother of three children, suffered with 
nymphomania for four years, beginning four years after the 
last birth. Her saliva and urine exhibited extreme acid reac- 
tion. Her erotism was curbed by a diet of alkaline-producing 
foods and a mild current of electricity applied four times, 
forty-eight hours apart, from the nape of the neck to the cli- 
toris for two hours. 

Mrs. J. J. H., age 28, of Los Angeles, Calif., an anemic, 
urinated four or five times nights and failed to menstruate for 
five months. Her urine gave an alkaline reaction. The acid 
prescription controlled the frequent urination and restored 
menstruation. 

Mrs. M., age 75, troubled with intestinal gas and frequent 
urination caused by alkalinity of the secretions. The hydro- 
chloric acid controlled the gases and frequent urination. 

A boy, age 3, was affected with cystitis and enuresis for 
eighteen months. Analysis of his urine was made by three 
different physicians and found alkaline, yet pronounced nor- 
mal. He nearly had spasms from pain at every urination. 
Gave dilute hydrochloric acid 3v. Aqua q. s. Oz. III. M. Sig.: 
One dram beaten up with half an egg, cream Oz. SS., milk 
Oz. II. Taken before the morning and evening meals. This 
restored the ratio of the secretions and cured the boy in six 
days. 

A woman, age 26, was affected with eczema for fifteen 
years. Saliva and urine gave intense acid reaction. With an 
alkaline nourishment the eczema disappeared in three months 
without medication. 

An engineer, age 40, was annoyed most of the time with 
priapism. An analysis of his saliva and urine exhibited intense 



ACIDITY AND ALKALINITY 157 

acidity. Advised less acid and more alkaline-producing foods 
and prescribed one Potassii salts, which modified the aphro- 
disiac effect of the acid urine. 

Miss K. C, age 25, whose face was affected with acnitis 
and indurations. The excessive use of acid-producing foods 
had developed acidosis. A change of diet restored the ratio 
of the secretions and Kali Mur 3X, three tablets every 3 hours, 
absorbed the indurations and cleared her face. 

A woman, age 42, had cancer of the uterus, which was 
determined by a microscopic examination. Analysis of her 
urine exhibited extreme alkalinity. The acid prescription 
restored the ratio of the secretions. Intrauterine medication 
and absorbent applications overcame the growth. 

A woman, age 25, had profuse leucorrhea for eight years 
that resisted many different treatments. Her saliva and urine 
exhibited intense acidity. The diet was changed to restore 
the secretions, and Kali Mur 3X, three tablets every three 
hours, controlled the discharge. 

Mr. G. B., age 60, affected with arterial hypertension and 
incipient arterosclerosis. For years his diet consisted of stim- 
ulant and acid-producing foods. Advised a non-stimulant and 
balanced diet of acid and alkali foods, which regulated the 
secretions. Dry-towel friction every morning; three drams of 
olive oil daily and skin anointed once a week. 

^ Distilled Hamamelis Oz. I 

Belladonna Gtt. VIII 

Aqua q. s Oz. IV 

M. Sig. : One dram every four hours. 

This controlled the arterial tension and restored elasticity 
to the vessels. 

Mr. B., age 45, a physician who had been treated two 
years for heart disease by several physicians without relief. 
His diet consisted of stimulants and acid-producing foods, 
which caused chemical reaction, irritation and imperceptible 
reflexes. The reactions and reflexes following indigestion con- 
tracted and relaxed the cells until there was general functional 
cell disease. Metabolism failed to an extent that autointoxi- 
cation produced the following symptoms of mild periodicity, 
which had been overlooked : Mental dullness, slight headache, 
periodical dyspnea, fatigue, yawning and constricted rectum, 
scanty and intense acidity of the urine ; weight 20 pounds too 
heavy. 



158 ACIDITY AND ALKALINITY 

Treatment: Advised a nonstimulant and an equalizing 
acid and alkaline diet for restoring- the ratio of the secretions. 
The rectum was given orificial attention. A weekly skin 
anointing and dry-towel friction every morning restored the 
capillaries and improved metabolism. All the mild periodical 
symptoms were controlled with the following: 

^ Potassii Acetas 3ij 

Spe. Med. or Normal Tinct. Echinacea. . . §ss. 

Fowler's Solution 3ss 

Simple Syrup 5j 

Aqua q. s Oz. IV 

M. Sig. : One dram every three hours. 
General function cell weakness was overcome with 

IJ Calcarea 3X Grs. X 

Distilled Hamamelis Oz. ss 

Spe. Med. or Normal Tinct. Belladonna Gtt. VIII. 

Aqua q. s Oz. IV 

M. Sig. : One dram every four hours. 
To substantiate these facts further, we frequently meet 
intractable, reflex cases of cystitis and enuresis in infants; 
cystitis and prostatitis in all ages, until the acid and alkali 
secretions are restored to their natural or nonirritant ratio. 
Hence it is apparent that the disproportioned acid and alkali 
secretions are the etiology of nine-tenths of all irritations and 
reflex reactions. 

Among the recent discoveries in pathology, none is of 
more importance than the fact, here stated, that when the 
ratio of the secretions is broken, a balanced diet of protein, 
carbohydrates, fats and mineral matter, cannot prevent the 
perversion of the circulation, osmosis and metabolism. 



ACIDITY AND ALKALINITY 

Medical text books do not thoroughly discuss or consider 
the important functions of the acid and alkali secretions. Clin- 
ical observation, for more than forty years, has proven that 
different foods fluctuate these secretions to extreme condi- 
tions and which are equally irritant to the nervous system. 
The intensifying of these secretions for a few hours or a day 
or two is quite harmless but when foods produce their ex- 
tremes for months and even years then indigestion, reflex irri- 
tation and nerve enervation become permanent affections. It 
is then scarcely possible to restore health to any person who 
is permanently affected with acidosis or extreme alkalinity. 
The need then of a method which any practitioner can readily 
utilize is absolutely necessary and we offer a new instrument 
for the estimation of the urinary acidity and alkalinity. 

The acidimeter consists of a glass tube with graduation 
at 5 Cc. and 10 Cc. From this upward the tube is graduated 
in intervals of two to 100°. 

The method of using the acidimeter is as follows : The 
tube is filled with the specimen of urine to be tested, until 
the lower edge of the meniscus is just on the 10 Cc. mark. Two 
drops of phenolphthalein indicator solution are added, and 
then with an ordinary medicine dropper decinormal sodium 
hydroxide solution is slowly added, inverting the tube after 
each addition, until the color of the fluid has been changed 
from a yellow to a light rose pink. The acidity in degrees is 
now read off on the tube at the level of the fluid. The normal 
urinary acidity of a mixed twenty-four hour specimen should 
be between 30 and 40 degrees. 

(With very concentrated urines in which the acidity is 
above 100° the tube may be filled to the 5 Cc. mark and water 
to the usual level, 10 Cc. The resulting figures are, of course, 
doubled). The acidity varies to a marked extent during the 
24 hours, therefore, it is essential to determine the total acidity 
as follows : Multiply the degrees of acidity of a mixed 24 

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160 ACIDITY AND ALKALINITY 

hours' voiding by the number of Cc.s voided. This gives the 
total acidity. Example : Acidity, 35 degrees ; amount voided 
in 24 hours, 2000 Cc; total acidity, 35X2000=70,000. 

If the urine is alkaline in reaction and it is desired to esti- 
mate the degree of alkalinity, which the writer claims is so 
important, decinormal hydrochloric or oxalic-acid solution 
must be used in place of the sodium hydroxide, the pink color 
present being just discharged by the acid. 

The advantages of this instrument are : 

1. Facility of handling, it can be carried in the pocket or 
bag and is not easily broken as is the burette. No stand is 
required. 

2. Accuracy of results, the graduations being similar to 
.the standard delivery burette. 

3. Price, the first cost is considerably less than that of a 
burette, and as the acidimeter is far less liable to breakage the 
eventual cost is very much less. 

4. Simplicity, the test can be carried on by almost any- 
one, the office attendant or the doctor's wife may be quickly 
taught its rapid and accurate use. 

This instrument will simplify the present laboratory facil- 
ities of the medical man, thus increasing his diagnostic capa- 
bilities and his professional success. 

Opposite, I present a cut of the acidimeter and two 
test tubes. Normal acidity of the urine is 30 to 40 degrees. 
In tube No. 1, is a specimen of urine intended to represent 
alkalinity ; it changes blue litmus paper to a slight pink color ; 
a condition that most physician consider an alkaline reaction. 
And so it is alkaline, so far as its irritant effect on those affect- 
ed with indigestion, subthermal conditions; flatulency; ureth- 
rism, malignant growths, prostatic and bladder troubles, the 
latter are sequela following specific diseases. 

Whenever a specimen of urine showing any of a dozen 
different shades of pink color by blue litmus paper it should 
be termed subacidosis. For when examined by the acidimeter 
method it may contain from 3 to 25 degrees of acid ; just below 
the 30 or 40 degrees of normal acidity, but still contain an irri- 
tant quantity of the alkali phosphates. 

Tube No. 2 represents the amber color of a specimen of 
urine which changes the blue litmus to a light red of normal 
acidity of 30 to 40 degrees. The acid and alkali secretions of 
the system retain their proportions quite closely when the 
acidity of the urine, by examination shows it to contain 28 



ACIDIMETER 



-100 

-90 
-80 
-70 
-60 
-50 
-40 
-30 
-20 
-10 



10 
ML" 



No. 1 



No. 2 



ACIDITY AND ALKALINITY 161 

to 40 degrees. Clinical observation has shown that whenever 
the degree of acidity of the urine fell below 28 or above 43, 
for a period, the blood became irritant to the nervous system 
and the urine to local diseases. The utilization of the acidi- 
meter makes it possible for the medical profession to see the 
advantages of knowing- positively the degree of acidity and 
alkalinity when treating the chronic diseases above given. 

The acid and alkali secretions are fluctuating to extremes 
at all ages of life, and especially during infancy and old age. 
An acid or alkali producing diet of a mother may seriously 
affect a nursing child with indigestion, colics and constipation. 
Observe the condition of five hundred children at school. Their 
diversified physical condition shows a lack of knowledge of 
what foods destroy the acid and alkali proportions. The proper 
nourishing of a child depends on keeping the acid and alkali 
secretions so closely proportioned that sufficient electrical 
energy will be developed to supply the mental and physical 
demands for growth. A child lacking in vigor, weight and 
clear complexion is usually laboring under the effects of alka- 
linity. When such a child becomes ill we treat his present 
condition but by not knowing what foods would restore the 
ratio to the acid and alkali secretions, we lost an opportunity 
to permanently improve his health. 

The mucous membrane of certain parts were intended to 
tolerate a predominance of acids ; but when the alkalies have 
a surplus and are intensified they cause a deficit in the region 
of the acid and produce irritation. And when the acid secre- 
tions have a surplus and are intensified they develop an alkali 
deficit and excite irritation. 

Those who consult and become familiar with the acid 
and alkali producing foods, can suggest a diet which will close- 
ly maintain the ratio of the secretions; but there are those 
who do not want to wait for the foods to regulate the secre- 
tions. In such cases we can prescribe some of the potassiums 
for acidosis and the acids when the alkalies predominate: IJ 
Dilute hydrochloric acid Oz. ISS. Aqua Oz. ISS. M. Sig. : 
One dram added to a beaten up tgg and milk to fill a glass, 
taken before the morning and evening meals. 



PROPORTIONING THE SECRETIONS AND OXIDIZ- 
ING OF FOODS 

Every human individual can learn when meats are oxi- 
dized, that is to say, when they are digested, either within or 
burned outside of the body, they yield an acid ash, and that 
the vegetables generally yield an alkaline ash under the same 
conditions. 

The knowledge that the normal and efficient operation of 
the human machine is dependent on the maintenance of a 
certain balance between these two factors, acidity and alka- 
linity — a balance that may be easily disturbed and even de- 
stroyed through the overindulgence in certain classes of foods 
or drink with most distressing and dire results to the victim — 
should constitute a substantial part of the intellectual capital 
of every individual. 

As a quick and comprehensive working guide to approx- 
imate safety there probably is no table published superior to 
Sherman's tables of 100 calory portions. The following list 
shows in the first column the name of the foods, in the second 
the quantity in ounces necessary to secure 100 calories of 
energy is given, and in the third the relative acidity or alka- 
linity after combustion in the body is stated. 

A knowledge of oxidizing, or digestion, of foods is very 
essential but to understand it one should know what important 
functions the acid and alkali secretions perform when they 
are normally balanced. The combining of oxygen with the 
acid and alkali secretions in the body sustains the alkaline 
ratio of the blood; develops electricity, or vital force; deter- 
mines their correct proportions to the stomach and intestines 
for digestion, and performs osmosis and metabolism. 

This is to show that a knowledge of foods which exert an 
influence to fluctuate the acid and alkali secretions to extremes 
which is a disease producing condition, is a hundred times 
more important than to know the amount of calory units of 
heat they contain. 

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ACIDITY AND ALKALINITY 163 

ACID PRODUCING FOODS 

Ounces Excess 

Per 100 Calo- acid per 
Article — ries portion portion. 

Bacon, smoked 56 0.8 

Barley, pearled 99 2.9 

Beef, brisket 1.09 2.4 

Chuck 1.62 3.8 

Corned 1.18 2.6 

Cross ribs 1.13 2.5 

Dried, smoked, salted *: 1.96 8.3 

Flank 1.91 5.6 

Fore quarter 1.91 5.1 

Fore shank 2.47 7.7 

Heart 1.23 3.2 

Hind quarter 1.76 5.0 

Hind shank, lean 2.65 8.2 

Hind shank, fat 1.41 4.0 

Juice 14.11 9.8 

Kidney 3.17 7.4 

Liver 2.73 7.9 

Loin 1.83 5.8 

Neck, lean 2.10 6 6 

Neck, medium fat 1.54 4.3 

Plate, lean 1.52 3.3 

Porterhouse steak 1.30 4.0 

Ribs rolled, lean 2.01 5.7 

Ribs, lean 1.89 5.2 

Ribs, fat 92 1.9 

Roast 1.08 3.4 

Round, lean 2.26 6.8 

Round, free from fat 3.07 10.0 

Rump, lean 1.70 5.0 

Rump, fat .92 2.1 

Sides, lean 1.80 4.9 

Shoulder and clod, lean 2.71 7.8 

Shoulder and clod, medium 1.96 5.4 

Sirloin 1.46 3.9 

Black fish 1.43 10 8 

Blue fish 3.09 11.0 

White bread 1.34 22.7 

Whole wheat bread 1.44 3.0 



164 ACIDITY AND ALKALINITY 

Buckwheat flour 1.01 2.0 

Butter, fresh 2.06 5.2 

Catfish 1.45 3.0 

Cheese, cheddar 77 1.2 

Chicken, broilers 3.27 10.0 

Codfish, dressed 7.63 12.0 

Salted 4.43 12.1 

Corn, green 3.49 1.8 

Cornmeal 99 1.5 

Crackers, soda 85 2.0 

Eggs, whole 2.38 7.5 

White 6.92 9.5 

Yolk ., ! 97 7.0 

Eels, dressed 2.26 6.0 

Flounders, dressed 12.45 11.3 

Flour, entire wheat 98 3.3 

Patent 1.00 2.7 

Straight 1.00 2.7 

Frogs' legs 5.53 12.1 

Goose, voung 90 2.0 

Haddock, dressed 4.94 12.0 

Smoked 3.71 12.2 

Halibut, smoked 1.62 4.7 

Steak 2.93 7.8 

Ham, fresh, lean 1.55 5.5 

Medium fat . . . , 1.10 2.3 

Smoked, lean 1.32 3.7 

Smoked, medium fat 85 2.0 

Boneless 1.16 2.3 

Ham, deviled 92 2.5 

Herring, smoked 1.22 6.3 

Whole 2.49 6.8 

Lamb, breast 1.22 3.3 

Chop, broiled 99 3.0 

Fore quarter . . 1.16 3.0 

Hind quarter 1.41 3.9 

Leg, medium fat 1.57 4.2 

Loin , 1.06 3.0 

Neck 1.20 3.0 

Shoulder 1.04 2.6 

Side 1.27 3.1 

Tongue 1.68 3.2 

Lentils 1.01 1.5 



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Mackerel, fresh 2.54 6.7 

Salt 1.15 2.8 

Salt, canned 2.25 6.2 

Mutton, Chuck 91 2.0 

Flank, medium fat 87 2.0 

Fore quarter 1.02 2.5 

Hind quarter 1.09 2.5 

Hind leg, lean 1.85 5.0 

Hind leg, medium fat 1.50 4.0 

Loin, medium fat 97 2.2 

Neck, medium fat 1.22 3.0 

Shoulder, medium Tat 1.41 2.5 

Side ., 1.06 2.5 

Oatmeal, rolled oats 88 3.0 

Oysters, fresh, solids 7.00 30.0 

Canned 4.87 30.0 

Peanuts 58 .7 

Perch 6.32 11.1 

Porgy, whole 2.93 7.8 

Pork, loin chops, lean . . . . 1.40 4.0 

Loin chops, medium fat 1.04 2.5 

Fat, salt 45 0.1 

Side (not lard and kidney) 66 .8 

Shoulder, smoked 99 2.2 

Sausage 78 1.4 

Pork Tenderloin 1.83 4.9 

Rice 1.01 2.7 

Rice flour .97 2.7 

Salmon, fresh 1.75 5.4 

Canned 1.80 5.5 

Sausage, bologna 1.50 4.0 

Frankfort 1.12 3.9 

Summer 70 2.5 

Sardines 1.31 4.2 

Shad 2.19 5.8 

Shredded wheat .97 3.3 

Smelt 4.07 10.1 

Sturgeon, anterior section 3.94 10.0 

Trout, salmon 2.15 5.4 

Turkey 1.21 3.6 

Veal, breast, lean 2.25 6.7 

Breast, medium fat 1.75 4.8 

Chuck, lean 3.54 10.3 



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Chuck, medium fat 2.57 7.1 

Flank, medium fat 2.01 5.8 

Kidney 2.82 6.7 

Leg, lean 2.89 8.7 

Leg, medium fat 2.18 6.2 

Liver 2.85 7.6 

Loin, lean 2.67 7.7 

Loin, medium fat 1.99 5.6 

Neck 2.47 7.1 

Rib, medium fat 2.56 7.5 

Rump 1.57 4.4 

Shank, fore 2.72 7.9 

Shank, hind 2.84 8.3 

Shoulder, lean 2.84 8.3 

Shoulder, medium fat 1.69 4.7 

Walnuts, California 50 1.1 

Weak fish 3.80 9.6 

Wheat, cracked 97 3.3 

White fish 2.35 7.6 



ALKALINE OR BASE PRODUCING FOODS 

Article — Ounces Excess 

per 100 Calo- alkaline 

ries portion portion. 

Almonds 54 1.8 

Apples, fresh 5.61 6.0 

Dried 2.21 6.0 

Apricots, fresh 6.08 11.0 

Asparagus, fresh 15.89 3.6 

Bananas 3.58 5.6 

Beans, baked, canned 2.75 5.0 

Dried 1.02 5.0 

Beans, lima, canned 4.59 12.0 

Dried 1.02 12.0 

Fresh 2.88 11.5 

Beans, string, canned 17.10 13.0 

Fresh 8.50 13.0 

Beans, kidnev, canned 2.93 2.5 

Dried 1.02 2.5 

Beets, fresh 7.66 23.6 

Buttermilk 9.86 6.1 

Cabbage 11.20 18.0 

Carrots 7.80 24.0 



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Cauliflower 11.57 42.2 

Chard 9.23 41.1 

Cherries, fresh 4.52 7.8 

Chestnuts, dried 87 3.2 

Fresh 1.46 3.1 

Citron 1.08 3.0 

Cocoa 71 .1 

Cocoanuts 60 1.2 

Cranberries 7.57 3.7 

Cream, 40 per cent fat .^. . .93 .1 

Cucumber, fresh 20.53 45.5 

Currants, dried -. 1.10 1.8 

Dates 1.02 3.2 

Figs, dried 1.12 32.3 

Grapes 3.66 2.8 

Grape juice 3.53 4.0 

Koumis 6.82 2.9 

Lemons 7.96 12.0 

Lemon juice 9.00 11.0 

Lettuce 18.47 38.6 

Marmalade, orange ...< 1.02 .1 

Milk, condensed *" 1.08 1.4 

Skimmed 9.61 5.0 

Whole 5.10 2.6 

Molasses 1.23 20.8 

Mushrooms 7.86 8.9 

Muskmelons 8.91 19.0 

Olives 1.18 18.8 

Onions 7.24 3.1 

Oranges 6.86 11.0 

Orange juice 8.17 14.4 

Parsnips 5.43 18.2 

Peaches, canned 7.50 10.0 

Peaches, fresh 8.53 12.2 

Pears, fresh 4.65 2.3 

Canned 5.57 5.6 

Peas, canned 6.37 1.5 

Dried 99 1.5 

Green 3.52 1.2 

Pineapple, fresh 8.18 15.7 

Plums 4.18 7 3 

Potatoes 4.23 8.6 

Potato chips 62 3.9 



168 ACIDITY AND ALKALINITY 

Potatoes, sweet . . . 2.86 5.4 

Prunes, dried 1.17 8.0 

Pumpkins 13.72 5.7 

Radishes , , . 12.04 9.8 

Raisins 1.02 6.8 

Raspberry juice 9.38 13.0 

Rhubarb 15.27 37.0 

Spinach ,...! 14.76 113.0 

Strawberries 9.04 

Squash 7.65 6.1 

Tomatoes, fresh 15.47 24.5 

Turnips 8.95 7.0 

Watermelons 11.8 8.8 



ACID AND ALKALI SECRETIONS 

These two predominant secretions when combined with 
oxygen participate in all of the vital functions of the body. 
When medical writers recognize the serious effects of exces- 
sive acidity, they clinically emphasize only one of the two 
important secretions. Few things are more gratifying than to 
be able to render great assistance to a large class of aged peo- 
ple by being familiar with foods which temporarily and per- 
manently fluctuate these secretions. 

If one is not familiar with the acid and alkali producing 
foods, he will make egregious mistakes. The diet of most 
persons predominate with acid producing foods, so that when 
these two secretions appear at the stomach they are dispro- 
portioned with acids, which create an appetite that cannot be 
satisfied by overeating and which develops a predisposition 
to colds. Colds produced hyperalkalinity of anemics and the 
aged which aggravates prostatic and bladder diseases. Those 
who contract colds easily are frequently affected with indi- 
gestion, flatulency and deficient oxidization from a l§ck of 
hydrochloric acid. 

Many times when the ratio of the acid and alkali secre- 
tions is extremely disproportioned, digestion becomes so weak 
that chemical reactions are prolonged and thus develop fer- 
mentations and dioxid C0 2 gas. This carbonic acid gas is a 
stimulating irritant which creates such imperceptible irrita- 
tion as to contract either the bowels or rectum and by reflex 
action produce cramps of the feet and legs. This can be sub- 
stantiated by massaging the bowels and rectum, which re- 
lieves the cramps quickly by interrupting the reflex spasmodic 
action. The stimulating influence of the dioxid gas increases 
and changes the dynamic rate of the physologic functions to 
pathologic conditions. 



169 



INEFFICIENCY OF THE WASSERMANN REACTION 

The reliability of the Wassermann reaction is being ques- 
tioned in the determining of syphilis. It must be conceded that 
locomotor ataxia is more prevalent since the Wassermann re- 
action came into use. Either more people practice the social 
evil, or the conventional treatment of salvarsan is inefficient. 
The efficacy of the Wassermann reaction is founded on the 
idea that when an individual's blood gives a positive reaction, 
no other disease or condition need be considered. 

While there are quite a number of diseases which respond 
to the Wassermann reaction, such as leprosy, malignant tu- 
mors, scarlet fever, alcoholism, malaria, pellagra, jaundice and 
tuberculosis, yet its unreliability is found in its inefficacy to 
determine all of the complicating perversions possessed by 
the individual at the time syphilis was contracted. Thus the 
clinician may easily be led astray; for the treatment which 
destroys only the spirochaeta, and does not correct such com- 
plicating perversions as cell ptosis, diminished capillaries and 
weak metabolic processes, never yet has cured a case of syphi- 
lis. Again, the excessive quantity of sodium chlorid, used by 
the majority, which fluctuates the acid and alkali secretions 
to extreme conditions, interferes with the Wassermann test, 
affording another evidence of unreliability. 

Syphilis should never be recognized as an original dis- 
ease, because the individual has several perversions that are 
complicated by the invasion of the spirochaeta pallida. 

A workable knowledge of pathologic food marking, will 
aid the physician to proscribe foods which produce perver- 
sions, then syphilis may be controlled by an indicated 
treatment. 



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Diet Principles 

PART IV. 



FOREWORD 



There is no subject which will increase the resources of 
a physician in pathology, equal to a knowledge of the true 
principles of nourishment. The diagnostic resources of a phy- 
sician are limited, if he does not know what foods increase 
the dynamic rate of the physiologic functions, those which 
disproportion the acid and alkali secretions; those which di- 
minish the capillaries and produce hyperesthesia of the nerves, 
and which develop a predisposition to cold. The present prin- 
ciples of nourishment, are founded upon food elements, pro- 
tein, carbohydrates, fats and mineral matter and calory units. 

What practitioners need is a knowledge of what foods 
exert a stimulant influence, which increases the dynamic rate 
of the physiologic functions ; those exerting an irritant action 
which produce hyperesthesia of the nerves; those which pro- 
long chemical reaction and thus produce imperceptible re- 
flexes and impingement of terminal nerves; those that de- 
compose in the stomach and produce the alkali potassiums, 
and those producing hyperacidity; and what combination of 
foods creates the stimulating dioxid co 2 gas which poisons 
and produces so many stomach and bowel diseases. 



171 



DIETETIC OBSERVATIONS 

The human body is full of mysteries ; so full that the stu- 
dent of medicine needs not grieve over problems already 
solved; there are enough unsolved, to gratify the ambitions 
of untold generations. We frequently learn of some new 
problem of the system, that has been solved by scientific in- 
vestigation or clinical observation, which increases our knowl- 
edge of a deficient pathology. 

Nourishing the body must ever present profound secrets, 
which challenge the investigating powers of wisdom and phil- 
osophy. If the subtleties of normal nourishment of the body, 
be not understood, how are we to contemplate with profit, 
the modifications by activities or irritant and stimulating 
foods, which pathologically mark the body? 

The medical profession has given little or no considera- 
tion to the effects of foods which possess the active proper- 
ties of medicine as alteratives, cathartics, irritants, stimulants, 
vermifuges, diuretics, astringents, laxatives, refrigerants and 
aphrodisiacs. 

Biologists and radiologists have contributed to pathology. 
Dr. George Star White, M. D., of Los Angeles, Cal., dis- 
coverer of the bio-dynamic method of determining diseases, 
has definitely improved diagnosis and pathology. The late Dr. 
J. M. Scudder, of Cincinnati, Ohio, added practical features 
to pathology when he advanced symptomatology by "Specific 
Diagnosis." Dr. E. H. Pratt, of Chicago, 111., founder of the 
Association of Orificial Surgeons, has increased the ability of 
physicians to determine many overlooked and neglected 
causes of disease. But much more can be contributed to 
pathology, when practitioners learn, by clinical observations, 
how to determine diseases by pathologic food markings. 

Nosology is a misleading feature of pathology; but symp- 
tomatology has been proven an advantage, in determining 
acute and subacute diseases. Scientists may offer technical 
methods for determining some conditions and suggest inno- 

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DIET AND MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES 173 

vative treatments, but the majority of diseases will be diag- 
nosed in the future, as pathologic food markings and treated 
by many of the present conventional methods. 

When diagnosing diseases, a distinction should be ob- 
served between symptomatology and food markings. The 
transient symptoms cannot be compared with the permanent 
perversions, or organic diseases. Therefore, chronic and or- 
ganic diseases manifest food markings. 

A lack of food-marking knowledge makes medical ni- 
hilists of physicians, who are unable to determine how such 
irritants and stimulants -as tea, coffee, sugar and salty foods 
permanently pervert the functions and mark the body. 

It ought to be apparent to those who have tried to select 
a nourishing balance of food from protein, carbohydrates, fats 
and mineral matter, that their effects do not correspond with 
our dietetic education. It should then be the duty of every- 
body to learn why foods do not nourish the body, as we have 
been taught. There is a dynamic rate of contraction and ex- 
pansion for the heart, cells, and every physiologic function. 
The reason why disease occurs, is because our predominating 
foods are impregnated with excessive quantities of stimulat- 
ing, inorganic elements, which quicken contraction of the 
cells, and weaken their expansion. 

These statements are facts, when it is remembered that 
all the vital phenomena are performed by imperceptible con- 
tractions and expansions of the cells. And when these con- 
tractions and expansions quicken and obstruct the cells, they 
also do it imperceptibly, but by reflex irritations. Chemical 
reactions and fermentation are prolonged by ingesta con- 
taining excessive amount of irritant and inorganic substances. 
The prolonging of chemical reactions, produces an irritant 
ferment, irritating the afferent nerves, and conveying imper- 
ceptible reflex stimulating irritations to the vasomotor cen- 
ters. The efferent nerves then imperceptibly accelerate the 
dynamic rate of the cells, by their reflex contraction and ex- 
pansion. 

There are other ingesta influences which produce disease, 
namely, the reactions from the three carbons, butter, cream 
and sugar, that, when combined with oxygen, which is always 
present, preverts any two carbons, into the irritant deadly 
poison, known as dioxid co 2 gas. These carbons are not stim- 
ulants, but incompatibles, which form a stimulating ferment 
and gas, and produce hundreds of perceptible and impercept- 



174 DIET AND MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES 

ible reflex contractions, increasing the speed of all physio- 
logic functions. After the dioxid co 2 gas has been created, 
from a wrong combination of foods for years, it sensitizes the 
afferent nerves, until they convey to the vasomotor centers, 
the slightest centric and peripheric irritations, which sup- 
press the secretions and produces a predisposition to cold. 
The contraction of a cold, produces an extensive aching irri- 
tation, and if one wishes to learn how an irritant sensitizes 
the afferent nerves, he should apply a crash towel to his body 
within five to eight hours after a cold has been quickly sub- 
dued. These contractions tie up the dioxid gas in the bowels, 
and produce so much irritation as to occasionally close the 
sphincters, followed by dyspnea which stimulates angina pec- 
toris. When reflex irritations impinge inaccessible nerves, 
and spasmodically close the three sphincters, they often result 
in death. The afferent nerves eventually become intensely 
sensitized by reflex irritations and spasmodically produce 
shortening of muscular bundles as (wry neck) and contortions 
of the face. 

The reflex contractions from the alimentary canal often 
causes shocks or partial and complete paralysis, which have 
been determined as clots on the brain, occurring at all ages. 

Sodium chlorid is an irritant, stimulating, aphrodisiac. 
When used more than the economy of the system requires, 
it intensifies the oversensitized afferent nerves, and not only 
increases their sensitiveness but produces hyperesthesia of the 
general nervous system, as acknowledged by pain from a 
slight pinch of the flesh. A biologic examination can show 
the constituents of the blood, but cannot disclose whether the 
blood is in an irritant state. If the blood does not acquire 
an irritant state, then the afferent nerves could not become 
sensitized, and respond to the slightest irritation. 

Some neurologists have claimed that Americans are be- 
coming a race of nervous wrecks, from the effects of drink, 
prostitution and social evil diseases ; but they should know 
that drink, social evil diseases and aphordisiac foods, which 
prompt sexual impulses, produce an irritant state of the blood. 

Such skin affections as eczema and psoriasis are usuallv 
caused bV deficiencies 'of the blood, but when the use 'of 
sodium chlorid is reduced to a minimum, and Kali Mur. is 
supplied as a deficiency, these diseases disappear. This proves 
conclusively that when an excessive amount of one cell salt is 
introduced into the system, it forms new combinations, which 



DIET AND MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES 175 

produce deficiencies in some other cell salt. The excessive 
use of salt produces low specific gravity of the urine and uri- 
cema. Its irritant effects has developed albumen and albu- 
minuric retinitis and glaucoma. It empties the capillaries by 
determining blood to the larger vessels, which results in high 
blood pressure and apoplexy; also perverts osmosis, as observed 
by cell atony, dropsies, local edematous swellings and plethora. 
When the alkalinity of the blood acquires a deficiency from the 
acid effect of salt, the urine becomes intensely irritant to the 
nervous system, and acts as an aphrodisiac, which produces an 
erethism between the brain and^clitoris (nymphomania) substan- 
tiated by its victims in the asylums who exhibit the pathologic 
food marking of the excessive use of salt. 

Granular sugar is another stimulant and antiseptic. Its 
antiseptic properties interfere with, and prolong chemical reac- 
tions and fermentation, which develop the deadly irritant and 
stimulating poison dioxid co2 gas when combined with other 
carbins or with fruit and starchy foods. What is it that injures 
the system? Is it the sulphuric and other acids used for 
bleaching, granulating and crystallizing sugar or because the 
nutritive properties have been abstracted? Let us suppose we 
are eating five different foods, all of which contain potassium, 
sodium, magnesium, iron, sulphur, oxygen, and hydrogen, but 
all of these properties have been removed from one. Would 
the system be as seriously injured from a lack of them as by the 
impregnated substances used in its preparation? Assuredly not. 

Many of the predominating foods have had none of their 
nutritive properties abstracted, but are equally innutritious. be- 
cause they are cured with salt, sugar, nitrate of potassium, and 
smoked in coal oil. Other foods are pickled and preserved with 
antiseptics, without their nutritive properties being removed, but 
when eaten they prolong reaction, create irritant ferments and 
irritations which are also imperceptibly conveyed by the afferent 
nerves to the vasomotor centers. The efferent and sympathetic 
nerves are compelled by reflex action, to reflect these irritations, 
until the metabolic processes or reparative forces are too weak 
to maintain a standard. 
By fermentation 
One atom of sugar yields ..C 12 H 12 12 



2 atoms of alcohol C 8 H 12 4 

4 atoms carbonic acid C 4 4 



C 12 H 12 12 



176 DIET AND MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES 

Sugar yields twice as much dioxid gas as alcohol ; and it is 
not definitely known what quantity of this gas is produced by 
fermentation, when it is combined with other carbons, fruit and 
starchy foods. After proscribing sugar for several weeks, a 
biologic examination of the blood showed an increase of haemog- 
lobin and diminishing of such food markings as sallow complex- 
in; less inelasticity of the body; less eruptions and dryness of 
the skin, and less prostration. 

If the cause of the increase of many diseases, resulted from 
foods with part of their nutrition removed, the victims would 
show food starvation markings, but clinical observations have 
found that prolonged chemical reactions, irritations, and reflex 
contractions, which accelerate the dynamic rate of the physiologic 
functions, develop inflammations and organic diseases. 

The foods most universally used are preserved with salt, 
sugar, and other irritant and stimulating substances; therefore, 
it is wrong to exempt any one food, from causing the increase 
of organic diseases, for all so prepared are contributing factors. 
Most individuals in early life are not sensitive to atmospheric 
changes, but all through life the afferent nerves acquire a degree 
of sensitiveness which predisposes to cold. Every chronic dis- 
ease is complicated with cell ptosis, diminished capillaries, and 
oversensitiveness of the nervous system. 

Bacteriologists have stated that inorganic elements and anti- 
septics interfere with and prolong chemical reactions during tube 
testing. Physicians who know how the excessive use of salt 
obstruct chemical reactions in the system have proscribed its use 
for a few days before administering Salvarsan. In nourishing 
the body, it is necessary to know what foods form faulty combi- 
nations and prolong chemical reactions, which subject the affer- 
ent nerves to irritable reflexes. 

There are many different kinds of fresh meat and fish, that 
when properly cooked, are more nutritious than those prepared 
with salt and other inorganic elements, which so seriously injure 
the system. Milk, eggs, vegetables and fruits, are some of the 
foods which nourish but do not prolong chemical reactions nor 
subject the afferent nerves to irritable reflexes. 



NOURISHMENT 

In order to prove, — for there must be some reason — why so 
few people "die of old age," that is, free of disease, it would be 
essential to ascertain the initiatory cause which perverts the 
physiologic functions. The heart pulsates at a regular rate, and 
the vital phenomena functionate at a particular dynamic rate, 
and any stimulant nourishment that increases or depresses their 
speed, must be considered as the initiatory factor, which per- 
verts the physiologic functions. 

In those cases where the nourishment consists almost entirely 
of stimulants, the dynamic rate of the vital functions is increased 
and acidosis produced, resulting in arterial tension (high blood 
pressure). In other cases, where the nourishment is largely 
stimulating, enervation is induced and the functional rate ob- 
structed, causing low blood pressure. 

To substantiate the foregoing, it is necessary to show how 
some nonstimulant foods, wrongly combined, generate a stimulat- 
ing dioxid C02 gas, which perceptibly or imperceptibly increases 
and perverts the physiologic functions. The carbonic acid gas 
produces capillary irritation and paresis, followed by stagnation 
of blood vessels, accumulation of C02 gas, fermentation of tis- 
sues and resulting inflammation. This presents the connection 
between the perverted functions and inflammation. Local in- 
flammation, the point at which irritation, reflex action and in- 
fection start, results in organic diseases. 

The inorganic salts found in the ashes of the system are 
all essential to the growth and metamorphosis of the body. 
Whenever an excessive amount of any of these salts is appro- 
priated by the system, new chemical combinations will form, 
resulting in deficiencies of the cell salts, which prevent proper 
nourishment from maintaining the vital functions. 

The author does not expect a radical change in the nourish- 
ment, customs or habits of healthy people, but by making known 
certain foods which imperceptibly increase and obstruct the 
dynamic movements of the vital functions, developing disease 

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178 DIET AND MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES 

and preventing their cure, he will have accomplished a worthy 
object. 

The drinks and foods which so affect the physiologic func- 
tions, in most instances, are those used in excessive quantities 
by habit, but when reduced to economic requirements are less 
injurious to the system. 

Tea. — Tea contains from 1.5 to 4 per cent caffein, a volatile 
oil and a variable amount of tannin; when drunk too strong 
it exerts a stimulant, irritant and astringent effect. These in- 
fluences determine blood to the alimentary canal, producing slight 
hyperesthesia of the nerves, which causes reflex headache and 
constipation, and diminishes the capillary circulation. 

Coffee. Coffee is a strong stimulant, irritant, antisoporific, 
anti-emetic and aphrodisiac. By habit its use is increased with 
many until it produces alarming effects. From the age of twenty 
to thirty, when the system tolerates its irritant and stimulant 
effects, its excessive use induces a mild sensitiveness of the sym- 
pathetic nerve, which results often in inpingement of its pelvic 
terminal branches. From the age of thirty to forty, it increases 
sensitiveness of the sympathetic nerve, heart action, dynamic 
rate of the functions, excites sexual impulses, weakens the cells 
and intestinal muscles, and produces constipation, indicated by its 
typical complexion. From forty to fifty it intensifies the irritable- 
ness of the sympathetic nerve, subjecting it to many unknown 
reflex contractions or nerve impingements. The stimulant influ- 
ences of coffee participate in arterial tension, and by its aphrodis- 
iac effect contributes to early impotency. Through its lasting 
influence it increases endurance for physical labor. By its diffus- 
ible and stimulant influence it is one of the greatest participants 
for increasing the dynamic rate of all of the physiologic func- 
tions, and it has developed more conditions which require opera- 
tions than any other food or drink. 

Sodium Chlorid. Salt, while it is considered the most indis- 
pensable food, is one of the greatest factors of disease, for it 
is one of the habit-forming nourishments. What would one 
think of a physician who wrote a prescription which exerted the 
incompatible properties of salt as: emetic, cathartic, alterative, 
irritant, stimulant, astringent, refrigerant, hemostatic, anit-spas- 
modic, vermifuge and aphrodisiac? When salt is given as medi- 
cine in different sized doses it perceptibly and imperceptibly 
exerts all of these influences. These incompatible properties, 
stimulate the dynamic speed of the vital functions and by infiltra- 
tion of tissues, obstruct osmosis and induce plethora and anemia. 



DIET AND MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES 179 

Some excessive users of salt have blackheads on the face and 
an eruption on the chest and back, that will not yield to treat- 
ment until its use is reduced ; eczema of twenty-five years' dura- 
tion has disappeared after its reduction, without treatment. 

Sodium chlorid is the greatest factor of an unrecognizable 
condition which predisposes people of all ages to paralysis. Its 
excessive use produces a nerve hyperestheia which subjects people 
to paralytic shocks, sometimes from the slightest centric or peri- 
pheral irritation, with those who have developed this sensitive- 
ness to reflex action. With this sensitiveness developed, a wrong 
combination of food may produce a shock from centric reflex 
irritation and a cold draft may cause a shock from a peripheral 
irritation. Many of these shocks occur as hemiplagia or of a 
group of bundles of one or more muscles about the head and 
neck (cramp) which do not yield or relax to therapeutics, but 
do to a mild current of electricity, when applied from one ot 
three hours. 

Insanity and nerve specialists deny that salt predisposes to 
nervousness, but^ve will make an illustration: A sore is more 
sensitive than normal flesh ; hence it can be proved that hyperes- 
thesia of the nervous system predisposes to nervousness. 

Cocoa. Cocoa is a powerful stimulant and astringent which 
increases and interferes with the movements of the vital func- 
tions, perverts metabolism, weakens digestion and peristalsis by 
determining the secretions to the internal organs, for controlling 
irritation, which empties the capillaries. The sphymograph shows 
that cocoa produces arterial tension, but its stimulant effect is 
much shorter than that of coffee, which, being an astringent, in- 
duces constipation. Cocoa, sweetened, lessens hunger and by 
diminishing elimination it increases weight. 



THREE INDISPENSABLE BUT DESTRUCTIVE CAR- 
BONS. 

Butter. Many believe that butter supplies the system with 
a much-needed fat, and so it does, but being almost a pure car- 
bon it becomes a great disease producer when combined with 
other carbons. Butter is one of the three carbons, which, when 
eaten in combination wjth cream and sugar, quarrel, by generat- 
ing excessive quantities of dioxid C02gas. This gas is a diffus- 
ible stimulant and when combined with oxygen, which is al- 
ways present, it forms a deadly poison that enters the circula- 
tion, perverts metabolism and increases the dynamic rate of the 
functions. With metabolism perverted more of the dioxid gas 
enters the system than can be oxygenated or eliminated, as 
shown by such affections of the lungs as tuberculosis and bron- 
chitis. When the dioxid gas is not sufficiently eliminated, local 
inflammation will develop organic diseases. 

When liberally used butter produces disease in another way, 
for eminent physicians have proven that from one to two grams 
of salt (15 to 30 grains) are sufficient for the daily economy 
of the body. It is also suggested by such eminent authorities, 
that from three to four ounces of butter, be eaten daily in order 
to obtain the necessary fat and calory units, for heat that the 
system needs. There are 30 grains of salt in an ounce of butter. 
Sugar. Sugar is nutritive, alterative, demulcent and topi- 
cally antiseptic, and one of the three carbons which when eaten 
in combination with butter and cream generate an excessive 
quantity of the stimulant dioxid C0 2 gas. Acting as a stimulant, 
it increases the movement of the functions. Being void of nitro- 
gen, it cannot sustain life alone, and becomes nutritive only when 
combined with other alimentary proximate principles. Ice cream, 
prepared with cream, sugar and gelatin has been known to gen- 
erate sufficient dioxid C02 gas to cause immediate death. It is 
the substance that so seriously injures the mucus membranes, 
which causes constipation and rheumatism. 

Sugar is clarified and crystallized by acids, and then subjected 
to a bath calculated to remove all of the acid, but it is not entirely 
withdrawn, for it is this acid that dries the mucus membrane of 
the bronchial tubes and causes coughs. 

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MEAT AND ITS PRODUCTS 

Very many ills of life, are due directly to animal products, 
and especially to soups, owing to the excess of poison, that is 
contained in them. It seems strange, that man has not learned, 
that his own body, like that of the beast, is in a state of constant 
struggle, to get rid of the urea and other substances, that are 
always being generated there, in the process of life. He has all 
of the putrid effete matter he should carry. Why, then, add to 
these, the poisons that are contained in the flesh of other ani- 
mals? 

When urea is abnormally retained, it perverts the circulation 
and becomes the basis of rheumatism, gout and kindred diseases. 
The breaking down of momentary life, in the human body, is 
constantly making urea, which circulates in the blood. Man finds 
it difficult to drive out or throw off, each day, the urea that his 
own body generates; but, when this is added to by urea that is 
present in very large quantities in meat, and its products, he has 
a still greater problem to solve. 

Urea is the basis of urine, but most of it does not, as a rule, 
leave the body in that form, as nature throws much of it out 
by the lungs and pores. 

"One hundred cans of ready made soup, such as are found 
in the stores today, were selected at random and subjected to anal- 
ysis. At the same time urine from healthy animals and men was 
likewise analyzed; and it was found that both the canned soups 
and the urine were charged with a high proportion of urea, and 
that one might be substituted for the other, in most part as far 
as nutritive quantities were concerned. It is folly to expect 
health from such a source. On the contrary, the body is given 
an excess of flesh salts and old age mineral matter, by the use 
of meat products, for these contain the brokendown of animal 
organism. Life Electricity." 

Among the symptoms which indicate the retention of urea, 
are a deficient action of the skin, being either too dry or too 
moist; low specific gravity of the urine; drowsiness, experienced 

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182 DIET AND MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES 

when reading and riding in cars, or at church; mental inapti- 
tude ; f orgetf ulness ; bad complexion ; deafness ; failing eyesight ; 
stitches and rheumatic twinges. These symptoms should be suf- 
ficient warning for anybody to reduce meat and it ureal pro- 
ducing products. 

One of the most famous contemporary women, when asked 
to what she ascribed her wonderfully clear complexion, replied: 
"I have not taken any meat of any kind for many years." 

Chauncey Depew declares that he never knew what good 
health was until he abandoned meat; and he was a brokendown 
invalid when he took this step late in life. Remarkable result 
from the abandonment of flesh, was the return to him, of a clear 
optic nerve; what he often refers to as his "Clarified Vision." 



PICKLED MEAT AND VEGETABLES 

Pickled meat and vegetables are a class of foods cured with 
salt, vinegar and spices, which wither and toughen their fibers 
and destroys most of their mineral salts. These foods, besides 
prolonging chemical reaction and chymosis, which develop an ir- 
ritant stimulant, increase the dynamic rate of the vital functions. 
The increase of the function leads to capillary paresis, stagnation 
of blood vessels and resulting inflammation. 

Inflammation is the nucleus where all organic diseases devel- 
op, with or without reflex action. Hence there is no uncertainty 
as to the cause of the increased ulceration and cancer of the 
stomach and bowels, nor in fact, of all other organic diseases, for 
they originate from inflammation. The nutritive properties of 
pickled beef and veegtables, evidently have proven to be insig- 
nificant, for as an exclusive diet, they could not long sustain 
life. Canned bone chicken is a product of cold storage. The 
combination of pickled foods and coffee, sugar and salt is the 
producer of conditions requiring operations, but many of which 
could be avoided by the eschewal of these pickled foods. 



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SALTY MEAT AND FISH 

The salt and saltpetre with which these foods are cured, 
classify them with the stimulant irritants, which require a longer 
period of chemical reaction, thus followed by reflex contractions, 
which cause such great waste of the sympathetic nervous sys- 
tem. By these reflexes, the pelvic terminal nerve branches of 
the sympathetic nerve, are so impinged and irritated, as to cause 
insanity; and in many instances, this great life force can be re- 
paired only by an operation. 

Excessive quantities of these foods, eaten by taste and habit, 
break the ratio of the secretions and disproportion the gastric 
secretions. By breaking the ratio of the secretions, they pro- 
duce acidosis, with its craving appetite that is so irresistible to 
overeating. 

Again these foods produce cell atony, accompanied with 
a permanent greenish sallow complexion, which physicians have 
failed to correct with laboratory serums. The waste products re- 
sulting from the unrecognizable decay of salty meats and fish, 
lead to the destruction of the red corpuscles; hence the absorp- 
tion of these poisons, is a factor of anemia. The diet consisting 
largely of salty meats, destroys the mineral cell salts, by forming 
new chemical combinations, which prevent the cure of catarrh 
and eczema. 



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CANNED VEGETABLES 

It is well known that the antiseptics and preservatives, used 
in canned vegetables prevent putrefaction. Fresh vegetables, pro- 
perly cooked, contain the mineral salts that the system can 
appropriate without increasing the dynamic rate of the heart or 
of the physiologic functions. But the antiseptics and preserv- 
atives in canned vegetables prolong chemical reaction, and de- 
crease the vital functions. Fresh vegetables help to maintain the 
alkalinity of the blood; while the preservatives in the canned 
often break the ratio of the secretions and produce acidosis, often 
pave the way to colitis, rheumatism, and bladder diseases. 

The knowledge of those foods, which are injurious to one's 
health, is the best incentive to avoid them. 



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INFLUENCE OF THE SKIN ON DIGESTION 

Considering the importance of the skin, and how its obstruc- 
tion interferes with the physiologic functions, it is a question, 
whether the recent graduates in medicine, have been taught to 
be observers ; if a physician does not know the reciprocal influ- 
ence between the skin and the physiologic functions, he will 
find it more difficult to control indigestion, even with indicated 
remedies. Stimulant foods, by chemical reaction, produce im- 
perceptible irritations, which deplete the capillaries, or reparative 
agencies of the skin. Then the retained toxins exert a reciprocal 
obstruction, more or less, on all of the physiologic functions. 
Nonstimulant foods do not, by chemical reaction, produce imper- 
ceptible reflex irritation, and therefore do not determine the 
blood to internal organs. Then the metabolic processes repair 
the system and resist disease. 

The Orificial surgeons teach their associates, that the capil- 
laries are emptied by impingement of the great sympathetic 
terminal nerve branches, and by relieving the pelvic irritation, 
the capillaries will refill, and so they do in early life; but when 
the imperceptible reflex irritations have emptied the capillaries 
for years, they acquire an atrophic condition, from lack of 
nourishment, and the relieving of terminal nerve branches, does 
not refill them. 

Those who are continually troubled with indigestion, have 
anemia of the internal and external capillaries, and in middle 
life have local inflammation, which develops organic diseases. If 
the relieving of the pelvic nerve terminals, would restore perver- 
sions of the circulation, after the capillaries have acquired atrophy, 
many organic troubles would then recover without medication, 
especially the permanently sallow complexion which is due to cell 
atony. 

These remarks are not intended to detract from the skill 
of the Orificalists, for they have added to pathology an inestim- 
able benefit. 

In order permanently to benefit digestion, it is necessary 
to keep the capillaries in a circulatory condition, by inhibiting 

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DIET AND MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES 187 

the stimulant foods, which produce the imperceptible reflex 
irritations. 

TREATMENT : The physical treatment of the Osteopaths 
and masseurs, which improves the capillary circulation, benefits 
digestion. Hemospasia or dry cupping over the spinal column re- 
stores the capillaries and improves metabolism. Anointing the 
skin with olive oil once a week, followed with dry towel rub- 
bing every morning for a few weeks, will greatly improve diges- 
tion. There is always more or less indigestion, whenever the 
acid and alkali secretions are disproportioned, which may be 
known, by the degree of acidity or alkalinity of the saliva and 
urine. When the urine is neutral or extremely acid, or alkaline, 
there will be indigestion, accompanied with flatulency. For acid- 
osis, reduce such acid-producing foods as fresh and salty meats, 
salt, sugar, coffee and white bread. For neutral or extreme alka- 
linity prescribe: 1$ Dilute hydrochloric acid Oz iss. Aqua q. 
s Oz iii. M. Sig. : One dram added to a beaten egg and milk 
enough to fill a glass, taken before morning and evening meals. 
When digestion is accompanied with cell ptosis, diminished capil- 
laries and a sallow complexion the patient should take the follow- 
ing: 1$ Distil Hamamelis Oz. ss. Fl. Ext. or Specific med. Hy- 
drastis zss. Fl. Ext. or Specific Belladonna Gtt. vi. Aqua q.s. 
Oz. iv. M. Sig. : One dram every three hours. 

There is no method of diagnosing the degree of indigestion, 
that equals recognizing the broken ratio of the secretions, cell 
atony, diminished capillaries, and permanently bad complexion; 
and scarcely any treatment which will benefit digestion more 
than strengthening the cells, restoring the capillaries and clear- 
ing the complexion. 



IRRITATION, CELL PTOSIS, AND DIMINISHED CAPIL- 
LARIES 

It is an advantage to be familiar with pathologic food mark- 
ing, for it is an aid in determining chronic diseases. Irritation is 
the disturbing condition of most chronic diseases and must be 
located before forming diagnostic conclusions. Individuals who 
appeal for relief from chronic troubles usually have local inflam- 
mation and irritation, with a focus of infection. The degree of 
infection weakens and increases the heart's action from five to 
thirty pulsations and positively indicate irritation. Inflammation, 
irritation, and local infection usually accompany chronic condi- 
tions and should be recognized as food markings. 

Anyone can determine cell ptosis by the slow refilling of the 
capillaries from pressure, and is another food marking. The 
cells are an important participant in maintaining life but when 
affected with atony, acute diseases recover slowly, subacute slow- 
er, and chronic conditions are discouragingly prolonged and aggra- 
vated by relapses. 

The capillaries are as important as the cells, and who will 
deny that the body is not marked by their absence from the 
skin? With anemia of the skin, the system loses its protection 
and part of its elimination; for the nerve filaments become ex- 
posed and sensitized to the slightest change of temperature, and 
when the external capillaries are empty those internally are also. 
Will resistance be strengthened, by increasing the phagocytes, 
when there is a lack of cell absorption and a loss of capillary 
conveyance? With the capillaries empty, collateral circulation is 
acquired, that takes place through seconadry channels after 
stoppage of the principal route, and which is an organic condition 
of the circulation. In this condition, the diagnostician finds coin- 
cidental symptoms which are puzzling, as weak and increased 
heart action which intermits every few pulsations; accompanied 
with continuous or periodical fatigue; reflex action from irrita- 
tion of the skin; other reflexes from the pelvis and rectum, and 
eruptions. We determine these conditions without a name by 

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DIET AND MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES 189 

such permanent food markings as: cell ptosis; diminished capil- 
laries ; external or internal local irritation ; autointoxication, local 
infection and periodical exhaustion. 

Treatment : Proscribe the irritant and stimulant foods which 
produce these permanent markings; if there is colitis, sigmoiditis 
or constricted rectum, adapt a treatment which will control them ; 
for skin irritation reduce the use of salt and sugar and adminis- 
ter the indicated biochemic cell salt. When there is endometritis 
and infection, wash out the uterus two or three times a week ; 
for post nasal ulceration and infection, accompanied with laryn- 
geal cough, control it with a hand atomizer ; control autointoxica- 
tion by one bath a week ^followed by anointing the skin and taking 
a crash towel rub every morning; to strengthen the cells, capil- 
laries and resistance, prescribe 1$ Calcarea fluor 3x. Grs. x. 
Distilled hamamelis Oz. ss. Fl. Ext. or Specific med. Belladonna 
Gtt. viii. Aqua q. s. Oz. iv. M. Signa : One dram every three 
hours. 

When these instructions are closely observed the food mark- 
ings disappear as recovery responds. 



PROSTATO-CYSTITiS 

A majority of elderly men are troubled with prostatocystitis, 
which results in retention or incontinence of urine, for which a 
specific treatment has never been offered, as physicians direct 
their attention and treatment, entirely to the local affection ; while 
there are many causes, that may start the local trouble, there 
are perversions, obstacles and aggravations, which, if not known, 
prevent its cure ; but when they are corrected, the local condition 
will respond to a direct treatment at any stage of life. 

Prostatic diseases are characterized by inflammation, irri- 
tability and weakness ; because the inflammation produces the 
irritability and weakness, some believe that when it is controlled, 
the latter conditions will naturally recover. Here, is the falsity 
of treating prostatic diseases, for during the inflammatory per- 
iod the prostatic nerves acquire a neurotic condition, and the 
cells, tissues and muscles atony, proved by the frequency of 
urination. It is also believed that electricity properly applied 
will overcome the irritability and weakness. This is aiso a falsity, 
for the local irritableness and weakness are part of the systemtic 
complications, and are aggravated by a wrong diet, and predispo- 
sition to colds. 

The effect produced by colds is the frequent oscillation of the 
acid and alkali secretions, which aggravate the irritableness of 
the prostatic nerves. 

Another serious influence of colds, is that following the 
suppression of the secretions, the blood acquires a toxic condi- 
tion, which causes irritable urine, manifested by periodical tenes- 
mus and urinations. 

Another obstacle met with, when treating prostatic diseases, 
is that elderly men are affected with indigestion from deficiency 
of hydrochloric acid, which results in extreme alkalinity of the 
urine and frequent micturition. 

A serious aggravation of prostatic diseases, is the eating of 
bad combinations of foods ; for instance, three carbons, butter, 
sugar and cream, or three starches, either of which develop, by 
chemical reaction, large quantities of dioxid C0 2 gas. This gas 

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produces intestinal distention, irritation, reflex contraction of 
the rectum, and causes tenesmus and frequent voidance of urine, 
which so disturbs sleep. 

Constipation, and the habit of eating the heartiest meal at 
night, aggravate prostatic maladies. The irritant and stimulant 
reflex contracting effects of tea, coffee, cocoa and smoking, on 
the alimentary canal and rectum, produce prostatic aggravation, 
which cannot be controlled by medication. By drinking one of 
the malted foods commended in this work, the alimentary canal 
and rectum will maintain a normal and elastic condition. 

TREATMENT: The treatment for chronic prostato-cys- 
titis consists first of controlling inflammation, which is not easily 
accomplished, unless the tendency to colds can be greatly miti- 
gated. First, test the urine for acidity or alkalinity with litmus 
paper; if acid, prescribe I£ Ammonii chloridum 3i. Specific 
med. or normal tincture Gelsemium 5ss. Specific med. or nor- 
mal tincture Macrotys 3ss. Aqua q. s. Oz. iv. Misce. Signa: 
One dram every hour. With alkalinity of the urine give 1$ Dilu- 
tum hydrochloricum acidum Oz. iss. Aqua q. s. Oz. iii. Misce. 
Signa : One dram with a beaten up egg and milk Oz. vii. Taken 
before the morning and evening meals. 

Evacuate the bowels with magnesia sulphate f ^i. Aqua 
fervens Oz. viii. Taken one or two hours before breakfast, or 
give some one of the mineral oils. 

When the local inflammation and swelling are so great, 
that the patient cannot voluntarily urinate, a sitz bath, for an 
hour, in connection with the acid or alkali prescription indicated 
by the litmus test, will obtain great relief. 

Many believe that prostatic inflammation may be controlled 
more rapidly by irrigation, but generally the passing of instru- 
ments through the constricted gland does more harm than good. 
There is a method, however, to locally medicate the bladder, and 
prostate gland which is beneficial. Prepare a solution as fol- 
lows: If Magnesia sulphate 3ss. Distilled hamamelis 3i. 
Specific med. Mangifera indica Gtt. x. Aqua distilled Oz. iv. 
Great relief may be obtained from one or two ounces of this 
solution, when introduced, through the prostate gland, so as to 
help control irritation and inflammation, without aggravating 
its condition. This solution is gently forced into the bladder 
with a half ounce hard rubber syringe in the following manner: 
Grasp the gland penis with the left thumb and forefinger, force 
about two drams of the solution with the syringe into the urethra 
and by stroking it toward the bladder, accompanied with a slight 



192 DIET AND MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES 

outward effort of the rectum, relaxation of the prostate gland 
takes place and the solution enters the bladder. By repeating 
this process several times, there is introduced one or two ounces 
which may be retained from a half hour to two or three hours. 
In cases of extreme suffering a half to one grain of cocaine 
may be added to the solution for a few treatments. This treat- 
ment may be repeated in ergent cases every twenty-four, forty- 
eight or seventy-two hours. 

Reference should be made to the article "Acid and Alkali 
Balance" in order to maintain as near as possible the normal ratio 
of the acid and alkali secretions and thus prevent serious aggrava- 
tion. 

The three meals should be of nearly equal weight and con- 
sist of light and easily digested foods, and the patient should 
guard against eating of three carbons or three starches. A warm 
sponge bath may be taken once a week; followed by anointing 
the whole body with olive oil, and dry towel rubs every morn- 
ing. The patient should sleep alone and occupy a well-ventilated 
room to control the tendency to colds. 

Prostatics are seriously aggravated by colds, which produce 
periodical symptoms identical with though milder than malaria, 
which should be controlled by I£ Potassii chloras 3i. Specified 
med. or Normal tincture Echinacea Oz. ss. Fowler's Solution 
3ss. Aqua q. s. Oz. iv. Misce Signa: One dram every three 
hours, and one two grain quinine tablet at six, four and two 
hours anticipating the periodical paroxysm for three days This 
prescription should be repeated whenever the blood produces 
regular spells which appear in the morning, afternoon, night, of 
frequent urination. The mild periodicity may be recognized b) 
an increased tenesmus, being compelled to urinate oftener, diffi- 
culty to start the .urine and by a very small stream, for the stream 
is larger when the periodical paroxysm is absent. 

The most serious of prostatic diseases is the irritability of the 
prostate gland, which are aggravated by both normal and abnor- 
mal urine, but less when it is acid ; and by cell atony with result- 
ing retention or incontinence of urine. 

To overcome sensitiveness of the nerves, the use of sodium 
chlorid should be reduced to a minimum and these remedies 
prescribed; R Calcarea fluor 3x. Grs. x. Distilled hamamelis Oz. 
ss. Specific med. or Normal tincture Belladonna Gtt. vii. Aqua 
q. s. Oz. iv. Misce Signa: One dram every two hours. 

Whenever a local part has been inflamed for a long time, 
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DIET AND MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES 193 

and subject to temporary renewal by any of the complicating 
perversions or aggravations 

This treatment obtained fair results with prostatic diseases 
of eighteen years standing. 

Men who are affected with prostatic diseases suffer, more 
or less, with urinary tenesmus from abnormal acidity or alkalinity 
of the urine. On retiring, the acidity of their urine is almost 
normal 30 to 40 degrees ; but which become so low, during the 
night, in acids as to give blue litmus paper a slight pinkish color ; 
this causes them to urinate several times. The mucus membrane 
of the bladder, even when diseased, will tolerate normal acidity 
of the urine, without producing as much tenesmus, as urine which 
colors blue litmus paper a slight pinkish color and which may 
be from 5, 8 to 10 degrees below normal acidity. 

These elderly men's sleep is also disturbed by hyperesthesia 
of the nerves i. e., the weight of the body induces a feeling which 
compells them to often change positions. If they will diminish 
such stimulant foods to a minimum as coffee, salt and sugar and 
products prepared with them; the olive oil will protect their 
nerve filaments and not compell them to change their position 
so often. Whenever these elderly men will take one tablespoon- 
ful of olive oil immediately after meals for several weeks or a 
few months their urine will maintain its normal acidity night 
and day with less tenesmus and with much improvement. The 
besetting obsticles when treating prostatic diseases are predispo- 
sition to cold; hyperesthesia of the nerves; irritant and stim- 
ulating foods; irritations from abnormal acidity and alkalinity 
of the urine. But I have recently discovered that olive oil lessens 
colds and tenesmus ; overcomes hyperesthesia of the nerves ; con- 
trols irritations by restoring the ratio to the acid and alkali secre- 
tions. 



DEMENTIA PRAECOX 

Dementia praecox is one of the forms of paranoides which 
usually appear during adolescence, and its etiology has been 
shrouded in mystery. We meet many diseased conditions in 
practice where only the physical system is affected and with 
others the brain, but in dementia praecox both mental and physi- 
cal are diseased. In the physical affection there are cell ptosis 
and empty and diminished capillaries. Normal cells have a 
dynamic speed of contraction and expansion, but when they are 
affected with atony there is neither a perfect contraction nor 
expansion. 

There is, then, a limited degree of elimination, to what 
amount we do not know ; but every chronic disease has this com- 
plication and the imperfect contraction and expansion of the cells 
are its cause. To anyone who wants to know the true cause of a 
disease, its etiology does not always define its condition for we 
want to know what produces indigestion, perverts the circulation 
and elimination* For instance, dementia praecox patients are 
affected with indigestion, perverted circulation and elimination. 
Is it possible that protein, carbohydrates, fats and mineral mat- 
ter, have produced these conditions, or is it the irritants and 
stimulants with which they are impregnated? 

Clinical observation has recognized the fact that foods im- 
pregnated with antiseptics and inorganic elements do prolong 
fermentative digestion, creating irritations which develop most 
all abnormal reflexes. When these reflex irritations, that start 
in the stomach, are conveyed by the vasomotor centers to the 
terminal nerves, resulting in impingement, then reciprocal reflex 
irritation occurs which so agitates the sympathetic nerve as 
periodically to break the continuity of volitional emanations. 

Now, we have two irritation focuses , acting periodically : 
those arising in the stomach and those occurring by impinge- 
ment of the terminal nerves. Will the relief of the terminal 
irritations control those created in the stomach? Certainly not. 
Therefore, the initiatory reflex irritations which limit contrac- 
tion and expansion of the cells are the true cause of their ptosis. 

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DIET AND MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES 195 

Dementia praecox adds another disease to the list of mys- 
teriously increasing maladies, as nephritis ; tuberculosis ; heart 
disease ; angina pectoris ; cancers ; pernicious anemia ; neuritis ; 
neurasthenia ; psoriasis ; and phosphatic rheumatism ; all of which 
derive their initiatory origin from the prolonged digestive fer- 
ments which by reflex irritations produce cell ptosis. And these 
conditions are being treated by a variety of methods which do 
not remove the cause of cell ptosis or restore their tonicity. 

The prevalency of this disease cannot be decreased until people 
are convinced that foods, impregnated with the stimulating influ- 
ence of granular sugar, inorganic sodium chlorid, and coffee, do 
produce cell ptosis and ^conditions which do not respond to treat- 
ment. 

Treatment: The indications for the treatment of dementia 
praecox are for one that will remove the cause which produces 
cell ptosis, and control reflex irritations; autointoxication and 
local infections. First, proscribe coffee, sugar, salt and foods 
impregnated with them. Suggest a diet of milk and eggs, cereals 
of wheat, cornmeal mush, rice and tapioca, and from one to three 
drams of olive oil immediately after meals. Vegetables: Par- 
snips, spinach, cauliflower, green peas, string beans, turnips, ruta- 
bagas, baked potatoes, celery and onions. 

Fruits: Oranges, grape-fruit , banana with lemon juice, 
dried apricots, dried and ripe peaches, and all of the berries 
when in season. Here are foods that are not impregnated with 
stimulants and which will not create sufficient irritation to incapa- 
citate volition, are easily digested, and maintain the ratio of the 
acid and alkali secretions. 

Examine the penis, clitoris, rectum, colon and uterus for 
local irritation and infection, which are easily controlled by any 
Orificialist with a workable knowledge of intra-uterine medica- 
tion. Examine the urine for acidity or alkalinity. When the 
former is present the diet will control it; the dilute hydrochloric 
acid prescription will restore its ratio and thus increase oxidation. 
The functions of a dry or moist skin can be increased by bath- 
ing and anointing the body once a week only followed by a crash- 
towel rub every morning, which will restore elimination and refill 
the capillaries. The cell may be strengthened by : 1$ Distil, hama- 
melis Oz. ss. Fl. Ext. or Specific med. Belladonna Gtt. vii. 
Glycerin Oz. ss. Fl. Ext. or Specific med. Ergot 3ii. Aqua q. 
s. Oz. iv. M. Sig: One dram every four hours. 

Having controlled much reflex irritation which exhausts the 
physical condition, our attention should be directed to the 
strengthening of the mental faculties. When only to supply a 



196 DIET AND MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES 

deficiency of a cell salt the following should be prescribed: Kali 
Phos, 3x. to 6x., three tablets alternated with the cell remedies 
every four hours. Mysterious pathologic conditions should no 
longer exist regarding dementia praecox patients, for they ex- 
hibit mostly food marking effects. 



NERVOUSNESS 

The physician is often asked "What makes me so nervous?" 
The answer should be, that the system lacks sufficient fats to pro- 
tect the nervous system from the irritant effect of stimulant nour- 
ishment. There are many other causes for nervousness, but this 
is the greatest, besides iris closely associated with all others. Those 
who make a specialty of treating nervous diseases, will say that 
you may inherit it; may have a dry skin; may have terminal 
nerve impingement ; pelvic and stomach irritation ; indigestion 
from foods which develop dioxid C0 2 gas; may worry over 
family wrongs; may have constipation accompanied with auto- 
intoxication; may have lost a relative or dear friend or suffered 
financial loss, and other causes too numerous to mention. Every 
one of these causes are, more or less, associated with irritation 
and enervation. 

The most important parts of the system to think of, are 
cells, capillaries and irritation, for they imperceptibly participate 
in every function of the body. When studying pathology and 
comparing its different forms with clinical observations, two 
forms, cellular and humoral, with our present mode of nourish- 
ment, appear most important. 

We must recognize two primary causes : weakness and irri- 
tation, as there are nineteen causes for acquired nervousness, to 
one inherited, but when we have determined the majority, it 
will be necessary to consider the other. Is it possible to inherit 
nervousness, without its being complicated with acquired causes? 
Do w r e inherit nervousness? Certainly not, but we do weak- 
ness, with little resistance. Do those who inherit nervousness 
and deficient resistance, lack in phagocyte cells which perform 
phagocytosis ? If they do, then the inherited form is curable, for 
phagocyte cells can be increased, and by performing phagocytosis 
increase resistance, to immunization. 

Immunization from what? From inherited nervousness, 
weakness, lack of resistance or microbes? If microbes, did they 
produce the nervousness, weakness, and deficient resistance of 
the parents, who conveyed these inherencies to their progeny ? 

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The healthy^ individual is not usually nervous, but it is those 
who are affected with permanent perversions, for chronic dis- 
eases have their origin in an irritant blood. An irritant blood 
is acquired and can be controlled, and by proscribing stimulating 
foods, nervousness and weakness can be overcome, and resist- 
ance strengthened by an indicated treatment. First, examine for 
irritation; if the heart action is increased, from five to twenty 
pulsations, it indicates irritation, which may be from a local 
inflammation and infection. A dry, sallow murky complexion 
indicates autointoxication; endometritis, local reflex irritation 
and infection; colitis or sigmoiditis indicates reflex irritation, 
and infection; pharyngitis and ulceration of the nasal and post 
nasal passages result in irritation and infection. Irritation and 
infection accompany constipation and headaches. A dry skin 
causes reflex infection; local sores cause irritation and infection. 
When the acid and alkali secretions are disproportioned, the 
blood becomes irritant, and produces irritation, and is one of 
the greatest causes of nervousness. 

Every irritation and infection increases the dynamic rate of 
the heart and, in chronic diseases, should be recognized as patho- 
logic food markings. After determining which of these irrita- 
tions and infections are increasing the dynamic rate of the physio- 
logic functions, a direct treatment will control them. Treatment: 
If autointoxication, order the skin anointed once a week with 
olive oil, and dry towel rub every morning ; if constipation, flood 
the bowels before breakfast with sulphate of magnesia 5i. Specific 
hydrastis Gtt. x. Aqua bulliens Oz. xii. If metritis of the pharynx 
and nasal passages, control them by an indicated internal and 
local medication; if endometritis, wash out the uterus; if colitis 
or sigmoiditis, control them by introducing four to six ounces of 
a solution of carbolated sulphate of magnesia every morning, im- 
mediately after evacuating the bowels, then introduce the same 
quantity of the solution, and pass it off, which leaves a clean 
colon and rectum for healing 

Allow nervous persons to eat all kinds of foods, except 
the following stimulants tea, coffee, granular sugar, salt and 
nourishment prepared with these. Adjust the ratio of the acid 
and alkali secretions, by suggesting a proper balance of such acid 
and alkali producing foods, as given in the part acidity and alka- 
linity. 

If nervous persons are examined and treated as suggested, 
there will be less neglected inherited cases. 



CHOLERA-INFANTUM 

An American name for an acute gastro-intestinal disease 
of infants, characterized by profuse watery diarrhea, with vomit- 
ing and tending to end speedily in death, by collapse. This 
definition of cholera-infantum, by medical lexicon, is correct, 
but to successfully treat it, one should know how it is developed, 
and what conditions must be controlled. It generally develops 
in hot weather. A child that is scantily dressed, and just been 
fed is exposed to an intense atmospheric change, which suppresses 
secretions, and causes gastro-intestinal ptomaine fermentation. 

The child becomes very ill, cries with headache and aching of 
the whole body. The mother being unable to comprehend the 
seriousness of its illness, allows it more food. The second feed- 
ing increases fermentation to a state of gastro-intestinal reflex 
spasms ; substantiated by the muco-watery vomiting and evacua- 
tions. Large quantities of mucus and water are thrown into the 
stomach and bowels, to control irritation, but which seem to in- 
crease the fermentation. Internal medication aggravates the con- 
dition. 

TREATMENT: The ptomaine poisoning and fermentation 
must be controlled, and can be by the following antiseptic cuta- 
neous application : I£ Bichlorid of mercury, 3ss. Alcohol Oz. 
ii. Aqua q. s. Oz. vi. Msce. Signa : 

Saturate in this solution, a two ply piece of thin muslin, large 
enough to cover the gastric and hypogastric regions, and apply 
over it, a two ply thin flannel, wetted in the following solution : 
B Powdered cinnamon Oz. ss. Powd. cloves Oz. ss. Powd. 
Ginger Oz. ss. powd. black pepper Oz. ss. Let these be steeped 
for ten minutes, in three pints of water. Saturate the flannel in 
the solution of hot spices ; but before applying it, sprinkle a dram 
of tincture of Opii. in the muslin, which is saturated in the bi- 
chlorid solution, lay a piece of oil silk over both applications and 
bandage. 

This cutaneous application usually controls the disease in 
twelve to twenty hours, but for safety it should be repeated once. 

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HUMAN ELECTRICITY 

Dr. Wm. H. Fitzgerald's "Zone Therapy" presents a method 
which is quite reliable for relieving pain and curing disease. It 
produces a temporary mechanical irritation, (pressure) which, 
by an imperceptible, reflex electrkal action, controls pain. As 
the acid and alkali secretions change their ratio so often, the 
Zone method may permanently relieve pain today, and only 
temporarily tomorrow. But human electricity is a physical non- 
irritant method of applying the hands, which control many con- 
ditions not given by Zone Therapy. 

Electricity is the vital energy of animal life, and the only 
force it can generate. All mental emanations and physiologic 
phenomena are performed by a force, generated from combin- 
ing oxygen and the acid and alkali secretions of the system. This 
is observed at birth, there being a state of suspended animation 
until oxygen enters the lungs, generating electrical energy that 
starts respiration, heart action, cell activity and life. As these 
combinations form the primary and vital force of all animal life, 
it becomes important to know the resources of human electricity, 
and how to utilize it for restoring health. 

The physician should be able to tell when persons generate 
a weak electrical force, for they are usually affected with cell 
ptosis^ perverted capillaries, bad complexion, indigestion, constipa- 
tion, subthermal condition and occasionally insomnia. The recovery 
of a patient often depends on whether the system is generating 
snfhcient electricity to support the physiologic functions. It is 
supposed that foods are digested by oxygen, acid and alkali secre- 
tions, but the necessary tilting and contraction of the stomach are 
produced by electrical energy, and which, if weak will prolong 
digestion, and end in subthermal conditions. 

Everybody should know why the system acquires a subther- 
mal condition ; but the laity and many physicians do not under- 
stand it. It is an inability to digest sufficient nourishment to 
sustain animal heat. Is it possible that the subthermal condition 
results from a deficiency of oxygen, and of the acid and alkali 
secretions ? No. But when the acid and alkali secretions have 

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become disproportioned for quite a period, digestion becomes 
imperfect and fails to develop electrical energy or produce oxi- 
dation. 

The writer met two physicians, at medical conventions, dur- 
ing the past year, who had been affected with a subthermal con- 
dition for nearly eight months, and who had taken iron and olive 
oil without relief. But who would give iron to increase the heat 
of the body when digestion is almost destroyed, or even olive oil 
when the stomach is unable to handle it? 

The utilization of human electricity proves two things: — 
First, that electrical energy is the most important participant 
of digestion ; second, when properly applied, it is a specific treat- 
ment for restoring a normal temperature to the body. In order 
to utilize human electricity, and increase the body heat, or restore 
thermal conditions, a person affected with a subnormal temper- 
ature, should immediately lie down after a meal, on a couch, well 
covered, near an open window ; moisten the hands or rub them 
together, applying the left hand over the stomach, and the right 
on the abdomen but not touching each other. Relax the sys- 
tem, and direct the thoughts to the stomach, for thirty, forty or 
even sixty minutes. The thoughts direct electricity to the stom- 
ach, and the escaping electrical energy from the hands restores 
digestion. When thus applied, following three or four meals, 
it restores digestion, which then develops electricity, and oxida- 
tion and proves conclusively, that electrical energy is the most 
important feature of digestion. 

There are hundreds of painful conditions appearing in the 
system, which yield to our own electrical energy, when properly 
applied, such as rheumatism, neuralgias, head and backaches. 
For earache moisten the end of one finger, on each hand, and 
apply them in the ears, which usually controls the ache in' five 
minutes. The pain of a rheumatic joint will respond when the 
hands are applied on each side of it. A woman who was affected 
with chronic enteritis, and had fifteen to twenty evacuations daily 
and cramps of the arms, feet and legs, was instructed how to 
apply her hands over her stomach and bowels, from twenty to 
sixty minutes, which digested her food, controlled the evacua- 
tions in twenty-four hours and overcame a subthermal condition 
in three days ; and which no medicine known could have accom- 
plished in that time. 

There is no other method comparable to human electricity 
for overcoming insomnia, with the rectal sphincter kept free of 
constriction, the application of the hands over the stomach and 



202 DIET AND MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES 

bowels, with the thoughts directed there, for thirty to forty 
minutes every night after retiring. 

The writer has for years utilized human electricity on him- 
self, and when indicated, on his patients ; often with results that 
could not easily be obtained by other methods. 



ARTIFICIAL ELECTRICITY 

Writers on electricity, teach, that it exerts no medicinal 
influence, unless its strength produces jerking of the muscles. 
This is not a fact, because a muscle without nerves, has no dyna- 
mic action, and when it is paralyzed, the nerves have lost their 
dynamic power to convey electrical energy to it. The impinged 
distributing nerves to a paralyzed part, are not then vivified ; and 
the question arises, what strength and length of application will 
best control irritation, reflex contractions and revivify the nerves ? 

The condition of local paralysis is an impingement of ac- 
cessible or inaccessible distributing nerve branches, caused by 
reflex irritation. The indication, then is for a treatment which 
will control irritation, overcome contractions, and restore the 
nerves of the paralyzed part. The writer has found that a mild 
electrical current, short of mechanical action, applied from two 
to four hours, controls irritation, relaxes impingements, and 
restores the dynamic action to the nerves, better than one which 
produces muscular jerking. 

The mild current, applied from two to three hours, is applic- 
able for Wry neck ; spasmodic contractions, which affect the throat 
or produce contortions of the face ; reflex paralysis of the aryte- 
noid muscles; superior and inferior laryngeal branches of the 
pneumogastric nerves, during an attack of membranous croup, 
recognized as diphtheretic, dropping of the wrist — paralysis — 
from lead poisoning; in a paralytic contraction of two, three or 
more inches of the small intestines, which simulates impaction, 
apply the anode to the abdomen and insert the cathode into the 
rectum for from two to three hours. 

For nymphomania proscribe salt and coffee, and apply the 
anode to the clitoris and cathode over the first and second lum- 
bar vertebra, for two hours every five days for several treat- 
ments ; impotency with reciprocal erethism, between the brain 
and genital organs, apply the anode to the underside of the penis 
and cathode over the first and second lumbar vertebra for two 
hours every five days ; for deafness resulting from the excessive 
use of salt, apply the anode to the upper cervicals and cathode 

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to the auditory meatus, for one and a half hours for twelve to 
fifteen days ; for deficient locomotion, from potation in early life, 
correct the circulation by hemospasia over the spinal column 
every second day and accompany it with depurating blood rem- 
edies for one month, then place the anode over the first and sec- 
ond lumbar vertebra and the cathode to the soles of the feet for 
two hours every second day for two or three weeks. 

These conditions have responded to the faradic and sinu- 
soidal currents, which proves that when electricity is positively 
indicated it becomes a specific treatment. 



PERIODICITY 

Mild periodicity, a condition little understood, has been 
recognized by all physicians as fatigue. Its cause is autointoxi- 
cation, from suppressed secretions, infection in the small intes- 
tines, post nasal passages, colon or uterus. A few days follow- 
ing a slight cold, which suppresses the secretions, most persons 
experience moments of fatigue, sleepiness, and exhaustion. From 
day to day these spells become longer, and intensified, occurring 
in the morning, afternoon, or at night. The condition of some 
persons, affected for months and years, becomes severe and not 
unlike malaria. The periodic paroxysmal symptoms, produced 
by the genus Plasmodium or anopheles, are usually even more 
severe than periodicity. 

The symptoms arising from this form of periodicity are : 
suppressed secretions, brief drowsiness, slight mental disturb- 
ance, blurred vision, scanty and highly colored urine, secretions 
extremely acid or alkaline, retained fecal matter, local itching, 
tired, languid and exhausted feeling, local distress, slight or 
severe pain, the spasmodic cough, which complicates bronchitis, 
short or long attacks of dyspnea, night dreams, awakened by hard 
rapid pulsations, cramping feet and legs, nervousness, yawning 
during the attacks. When these conditions are not controlled 
they become a factor of insomnia. 

These mild symptoms neglected, the blood acquires a more 
irritable state, then several conditions become so intensified, that 
they may develop a severe local attack of illness ; and if the 
physician recognizes this condition as fatigue, and not its periodic 
occurrence, he will fail to give satisfactory relief. It is easy tc 
determine suppressed secretions (dry skin) but their restoration 
will not always overcome the periodic action of the blood, until 
the kidneys and bowels assume their normal functions. Further 
examinations may disclose a local infection in the nasal passages, 
small intestines, colon, sigmoid flexure, bladder or uterus, which 
must be controlled by the indicated remedies and local treatment. 

To show how these scarcely recognizable symptoms of peri- 
odicity may affect one, we will cite a case : A woman, aged 30, 

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mother of two children, commenced vomiting with spasmodic 
pains in the stomach and bowels, August 29, 1920. I was called 
the next day, and all my efforts having failed to control it after 
forty-eight hours, by solicitation I learned that she had been 
feeling well during the day, but for several weeks, had had 
dreams, yawning and restlessness at night. This showed that 
the vomiting was caused by the periodical action of the blood. 1 
prepared the following solution: I£ Corn starch Oz. ss. Warm 
water Oz. iv. and added Salicylate sodium 3i. Fl. Ext. or Specific 
Echinacea Oz. ss. Fowler's solution 3ss. M. Sigma: One-half 
ounce was thrown into the rectum every two hours. When the 
first injection was absorbed, in about forty minutes, the vomit- 
ing ceased. Fearing that oral medication might renew the vomit- 
ing, I dissolved ten grains of quinine in a half-dram each of 
vinegar and hot water and rubbed it into the abdomen, at 4 P. M., 
and repeated it the second day, which broke up the whole attack. 

Clinical observations, for more than twenty-five years, have 
conclusively proved that all cases of fatigue exhibit periodical 
symptoms, unless neglected, until the blood becomes so intensi- 
fied, that it produces continuous exhaustion. Every individual 
affected with mild periodicity, has weak cells and diminished 
capillaries, which have been acquired by a perversion of meta- 
bolism. 

Patients with a condition of mild periodicity, who have 
come under my observation, complain of exhaustion and an in- 
ability to attend to their work; also that they have been treated 
by several physicians, with little more than temporary benefit. 
Inquiring when the exhaustion is greatest (in the morning, after- 
noon or at night?) the answer from some persons will be, that 
they are very tired in the morning; others feel well till noon or 
2 P. M., while many will say they dream and yawn and are 
restless during a part or all of the night. 

Because such patients seldom feel obliged to give up their 
work, their condition is diagnosed as fatigue and treated with 
tonics which fail to benefit, nineteen times out of twenty. When 
treated for periodicity, with the following blood depurative rem- 
edies, the exhaustion is always overcome: 3$ Potassii acetas 
3ii. Fl. Ext. or Specific Echinacea Oz. ss. Fowler's solution 
3ss. Any efficient laxative Oz. i. Aqua q. s. Oz. iv, M. Signa : 
One dram every three hours. This prescription is supported by 
one two-grain quinine tablet at six, four and two hours before 
the periodic exhaustion appears. 



DIET AND MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES 207 

Those who contract colds easily, are predisposed to period- 
icity, with its feeling of exhaustion, and if the practitioner does 
not produce some permanent benefit in his patient, the latter 
will go to other physicians, and even submit to operations. After 
the periodical exhaustion is overcome such stimulating foods as 
coffee, salt, salt prepared foods and sugar should be diminished 
to a minimum, for they pervert metabolism, weaken the cells and 
reduce the capillaries. In addition, order the skin anointed with 
olive oil every ten days and a dry towel rub every morning and 
prescribe JJ Calcarea Fluor 3x. Grs. x. Distilled hamamelis 
Oz. ss. Fl. Ext. or Specific med. Belladonna Gtts. vi. Aqua 
q. s. Oz. iv. M. Signa: One dram every three hours. 

Whenever this condition is treated as periodicity, with depu- 
rative blood remedies, the result cannot fail to enhance the physi- 
cian's reputation. Medicated as fatigue, confidence in the effi- 
cacy of medicine, is likely to be destroyed. 



BRONCHITIS 

Some persons develop bronchitis, in childhood and are af- 
fected by it, every winter, during their lifetime, for when it 
assumes a chronic condition, its etiology is only partially under- 
stood. With elimination diminishing for weeks, months and 
years, from a perverted capillary circulation, an acute attack in- 
flames the tubes, resulting in a deposit of tenacious albuminous 
exudation. The inflamed membranes secrete an exudation, that 
coagulates in the tubes from lack of serum. Expectorants have 
always been given for this condition, with temporary relief; but 
by increasing the exudation, the disease is prolonged. The inflam- 
mation of the tubes, is intensified at the slightest change of the 
temperature, accompanied with a tenacious exudation, cough and 
dry skin, which shows a lack of serum and obstructed osmosis. 

The author has discovered that the cells, during an attack of 
cold and bronchitis, can by mental and physical efforts, be so al- 
ternately contracted and relaxed as to restore secretions, osmosis, 
liquify the exudation, and control inflammation of the tubes. 
This is a wonderful discovery, for those who are able to compre- 
hend and apply this force, not only for controlling bronchitis 
but also colds and pneumonia. 

The physical exercise is as follows: Contract the muscles 
of the right arm rigid, as when exhibiting the size of the biceps. 
This is to show how the mind must contract and relax every tissue 
and muscle in the whole body. When retiring with a hard, tight, 
bronchial cough, the individual should lie on his back with the 
hands over the chest, take a deep inspiration, and hold the breath 
while counting ten, at the same time rigidly and forcibly contract- 
ing all of the muscles of the body. He should then relax the 
system for 15 to 20 seconds, and repeat the deep inspirations and 
enforced rigidity of the muscles, until the skin becomes moist 
with perspiration. 

During these physical exercises, the desire to cough is con- 
trolled, but the tenacious exudation, in the bronchial tubes, be- 
comes so liquified that the slightest induced effort at coughing 
obtains free expectoration. Finally the tubes become emptied of 
the liquified exudation, and the individual can sleep without 
coughing. The time required for breaking colds and controlling 
coughs by this method is from thirty minutes to an hour, depend- 

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ing on the time and severity of the attack. The exercises are 
not fatiguing and the relief is much more complete than obtained 
by medicine. Those affected with bronchitis and who contract 
colds easily should practise these exercises every night if they 
cough. 

A medical treatment is offered for those who cannot success- 
fully apply the physical method. An attack of bronchitis, sup- 
presses the carbonic acid of the skin by contraction of the cells. 
Their relaxation, with the restoration of the secretions, may be 
quickly obtained with the following: 
IJ Kali sulph, 3x. 15 grs. 

Fl. Ext. Veratrum vir. Gtt. xv. 
Aqua q. s. 

M. Sig. : 1 dram every half hour for several doses, then 
every hour. 
Put half a grain of nitrate of sanguinarin in one ounce of 
water and inhale it from a steam atomizer for half an hour, 
morning and night. This alone controls many severe cases, but 
when the cough is spasmodic and shows periodicity by appearing 
regularly in the morning, afternoon, or at night, the treatment 
should be: 

IJ Fl. Ext. or Specific Veratrum vir. 3ss. 
Fowler's Solution 3ss. 

Fl. Ext. or Specific Echinacea 3v. 

Aqua q. s. Oz. iv. 

M. Sig. : 1 dram every 3 hours, accompanied with 2 
grains of Quinine at six, four and two hours antici- 
pating the paroxysmal cough, for three days. 
Some of the most intractable cases have responded to this 
treatment. 

Bronchial patients are subject to reflex coughs, caused by 
pharyngitis, and accompanied with headache, when the treatment 
should be by a hand atomizer spray of the following antiseptics : 
I£ Glycothymoline 3ii. 

Fl. Ext. or Specific Echinacea Gtt. xv. 
Fl. Ext. or Spec. Hydrastis Gtt. v. 
Aqua q. s. Gtt. xv. 

Peroxid of Hydrogen Gtt. xv. 

M. Sig. : Spray the pharyngeal cavity several times 
daily. 
Bronchitis becomes intractable by hearty eating and responds 
more rapidly to treatment when the diet is very light or by fast- 
ing for two or rjiree days. 



GANGRENE OF THE FEET 

There are many causes of gangrene, but we will consider 
only that form which occurs from pressure, constriction and local 
destruction by trauma. Aged persons are subject to gangrene 
of the feet, caused by pressure and obstructed circulation, for 
there is no part of the body so neglected as the feet. The legs 
and feet bear the weight of the body, and participate in most all 
physical exertion ; therefore, they should, at all times, be kept in 
as healthy a state as possible. This can be maintained only by 
tonicity of the cells and capillaries, which are the reparative 
agencies. All foods mentioned in this work as stimulants, per- 
vert the cells and capillary circulation, and when local pressure is 
added to some part of the foot, the obstruction will prevent rep- 
aration. 

Treatment — The successful treatment of gangrene is first, to 
remove the pressure. Aged persons for economy wear their 
shoes, until the heat and moisture produce a convex elevation 
in the sole of the shoes, just posterior of the toes, which obstructs 
the circulation, and develops gangrene ; if the toes have, or have 
not, turned black, the patient must buy new shoes immediately, 
or purchase a pair of thin, steel plates, to be worn under the 
ball of the foot, and which furnishes a level pressure for the foot, 
and overcomes the convex elevation in the sole of the shoe, and 
which the author supplies. 

It has been proved and verified, that gangrene can be suc- 
cessfully controlled by a general and local treatment. To con- 
trol the pain before and after the toes have turned black, ,and the 
line of demarcation is present, prepare a poultice of one part 
powdered charcoal and three parts prepared yeast, which should 
be applied hot every two hours. This usually controls the pain 
in twenty-four hours. The poulticing should then be discontin- 
ued, for it causes suppuration after the second day's application. 
When it is not convenient to use the poultice, the following hot 
solution should be prepared : ^ Sulphate of magnesia Oz. iii. to 
the quart of hot water and 3i. of 33% phenol. This should be 
kept hot, and the feet held in it, until the capillaries are exten- 

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sively flushed. Dr. George W. Thompson, of New York, pre- 
pares a strong hot mustard solution, and the feet are held in it 
until the capillaries are flushed. He has the feet dried, and the 
diseased parts dressed every four hours, with cotton, which has 
been saturated in a hot solution, prepared with these remedies : 
5 Sulphate of Zinz Oz. i. Fl. Ext. Echinacea Oz. ii. Fl. Ext, 
Baptesia Oz. ii. Fl. Ext. Lobelia Oz. ii. Aqua Oz. i. This solu- 
tion should be applied after either method, the hot poulticing, 
carbolated epsom salt or mustard, whichever has been used for 
flushing the capillaries. 

While the local treatment is controlling and healing the 
diseased parts, experience has proved, that the blood can be 
protected from gangrene infection with the following remedies: 
1$ Potassii chloras 3ii. Fl. Ext. or Specific med. Echinacea 
ovi. Tincture Capsicum Gtts. xv. Aro. Sy. Cascara Oz. i. Aqua 
q. s. Oz. iv. M. Sig. : One dram every three hours. 

When called to a patient afTected with gangrene of the toes 
which has existed for months or a foot has been amputated and 
the odor is very offensive have the feet or diseased parts, bathed 
in a solution of borax and dusted with the same. Throw pow- 
dered borax around the edges of the room, take it up every two 
or three days and replace it, and when so used it will control all 
offensive odors. 



SUDDEN DEATH; FROM PARALYTIC SHOCKS 

Little attention has been given to the cause of sudden death 
by paralytic shocks, for the reason that few understand the true 
condition of a paralyzed part, and others have a mistaken idea 
of the etiology of shocks. Before death occurs, after a paralytic 
shock, whether hemiplegia, hemiparaplegia, paraplegia, or local, 
the external affected part exhibits ptosis, immobility and anes- 
thesia. 

As all paralytic shocks result from central or peripheral irri- 
tation, degeneration or reflex contractions, there are always fiber 
bundles or muscles somewhere in the body in a cramped, short- 
ened or contracted condition, and this is the condition that im- 
pinges and cuts off some nerve branch, supplying a vital organ or 
function, and results in death. 

Every physician and layman should remember, that unless 
these inaccessible contracted fibers or muscles are relaxed, death 
will occur. Thousands of people have died" from recent paralytic 
shocks, because of no known therapeutic remedy, that can relax 
or elongate a fiber, contracted by a shock, impinging an internal 
nerve, by which one or more vital functions are supplied. We 
do have at our resources, however, the mildest current of elec- 
tricity, which, when properly applied for from one to eight hours 
at a single seance, controls irritation, interrupts reflex action, 
relaxes shortened or contracted bundles, and removes impinge- 
ment, allowing electrical energy to revivify anesthetic nerves. 

Treatment. — With a spasmodic shock of the face or throat 
which inhibits phonation and deglutition, the anode, or positive 
pole, should be applied to the nape of the neck, and the cathode, 
or negative pole, to the contracted part for two or three hours, or 
until relaxation is obtained. 

Plethoric individuals who eat salty foods, drink excessive 
quantities of coffee with granular sugar, and resort to cathartics, 
produce central irritations, which cause shocks. These shocks 
paralyze from one to three or more inches of the intestines, simu- 
lating impaction or indigitation. Enemas will empty the alimen- 
tary tract below the paralyzed part, but the distressed sensation 

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in the bowels will remain. Such patients should never be allowed 
to die or be operated on, before trying the mildest current of 
electricity. Apply the anode on the stomach, the cathode in the 
rectum, and continue the current from two to eight hours or 
until the impingement of the nerve and the distressed sensation 
are overcome. 

A chiropractor or an osteopath may claim that a spinal nerve, 
which supplies the paralyzed part of the alimentary tract, is im- 
pinged by muscles along the spinal region. Many impingements, 
however, occur in central parts of the body where manipulation 
or physiological adjustments of the spine, have no relaxing power. 
Whenever a nerve becomes impinged near or at its spinal exit or 
peripheral part of the body, then physiological adjustment may 
give relief ; but when the impingement is centrally located, on an 
internal nerve, or near its terminal end, then the application of 
the mild electrical current for hours will save life, following 
paralytic shocks. 

Degeneration of a part of the brain or spinal center, may, 
by a perverted circulation, set up irritation and reflex contract 
tions, and centrally impinge nerves which supply these parts with 
nourishment. The cause of a shock that produces hemiplegia, 
hemiparaplegia, paraplegia or paralyzes some part of the face or 
neck, may be difficult to locate, but experience with the irritant 
effect of foods will help determine whether the irritation is 
reflexed from a central or peripheral part. 

During an attack of malaria it is possible for the blood to 
become so irritable, that reflex contractions may cause a paralytic 
shock from the intensity of the periodical paroxysm. Reduce 
the amount eaten, apply electricity from the nape of the neck to 
the base of the spine, and prescribe the following: 

5 Potassae acetas 3ii. 
Echinacea 3iv. 

Fowler's Sol. 3ss. 
Aqua q. s. §iv. 

M. Sig. : One dram every three hours. 

The mild electric current applied properly and long enough 
is a specific treatment for paralysis following diphtheria. Sudden 
death may follow a shock caused by irritation, reflex contraction 
and impingement of some nerve, which supplies vital functions, 
without any deficiency of the inorganic cell salts in the blood. 
In all forms of paralysis, that develop slowly, there are always 
deficiencies of one or more of the cell salts, as Kali Phos., Magnes 
Phos., Calc. Phos., or Silicea. 



CLOT ON THE BRAIN 



Pathologists have made few mistakes, which equal the deter- 
mination of clot on the brain, as the etiology of hemiplegia. Clots 
may form on the brain in apoplexy, for the spasmodic contrac- 
tion of the muscles of the neck impinge the jugular veins, ob- 
structing a free flow of blood from the head. 

A study of the reflex mysteries of the sympathetic nerve 
finds proof that hemiplegia is caused by the same centric and 
peripheric irritations, as produce spasmodic paralysis of one 
side of the face, head and neck. The recovery of a person with 
hemiplegia then, depends on immediate relief of irritation and 
impingement of inaccessible nerves. When further tracing the 
sympathetic reflexes, I have found that relief of the unlocated 
irritations and impingements quickly overcomes hemiplegia. Cen- 
tric or alimentary irritation, often causes hemiplegia or hemipara- 
plegia, that, when controlled and relaxation is obtained results 
in rapid recovery. 

A paralytic contraction of a section of the duodenum, jeju- 
num or ileum simulating and determined as impaction, has been 
relaxed by a mild current of electricity before laparotomy and 
others after, by manipulations, with immediate restoration of 
bowel functions. A sensitive tooth bulb has caused hemiplegia 
without any clot or impairment of the brain, which resulted in 
rapid recovery when overcome. Who has not seen individuals 
with one eye paralyzed, or a variety of contortions of one side 
of the face and neck, caused by nasal irritations, which resulted 
in reflex paralytic contractions without the least mental impair- 
ment? In apoplexy there is a free flow of arterial blood to the 
head, and an impingement of the jugular vein, resulting in con- 
gestive pressure, which may suspend the mental faculties, and 
produce death, by heart failure, before forming a clot on the 
brain. In acute hemiplegia, there is either suspension of the 
vasomotor functions and held in that condition by reflex action 
or impingement from irritation of some internal or external 
nerve. 

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Treatment. — Indications are to therapeutically control irri- 
tation by emptying the alimentary tract and restoring secretions, 
which usually renews vasomotor reflexes, unless inaccessible 
nerves are impinged. As antispasmodic remedies fail to relieve 
paralytic impingements, the electropositive should be placed over 
the cervical vertebrae, and the electronegative in the rectal sphinc- 
ter, and the mildest faradic current applied, until muscular relax- 
ation occurs and paralyzed nerves are revivified. 

It is a mystery why practitioners do not universally resort 
to the relaxing energy of the mildest electrical current, for reliev- 
ing impingements of inaccessible nerves, when they know that 
antispasmodic remedies, are without efficacy. This is because 
there are two conditions following most paralytic shocks, as 
spasmodic contractions of only a few bundles of one or more 
group of muscles, and the impingement of one or more inacces- 
sible distributing nerves. 

The long application of the mildest faradic current con- 
trols irritation, relaxes the few contracted bundles or muscles, 
overcomes unlocated impingements of inaccessible nerves, and 
results in their revivification and restoration of physiologic func- 
tions. 



SUNSTROKE 

Sunstroke is so very common during the heat of summer 
in the northern states that one would expect to find its path- 
ology defined in all medical works. Unfortunately, many dis- 
eases are considered so simple as to require little or no atten- 
tion, and this disease has received such slight recognition that 
it is scarcely understood. 

To understand sunstroke, we must first know how the 
system responds to different kinds of irritations developed in 
the body. If the irritation is in the mucosa a determination of 
mucus is directed there to control it ; if due to an injury, blood 
and its lymphocytes is directed to the part, causing contrac- 
tions of fibers, swelling and pain. In sunstroke the symptoms 
point to irritation and determination of blood to the brain, 
resulting in swelling and impingement of the nerve centers, as 
exhibited by headache and cyanosis of the face and neck, or 
obstructed circulation. The contraction of brain fibers, and 
the impingement of the nerve centers induce with some pa- 
tients partial, and in others general paresis of the sympathetic 
functions, followed by reflex nausea, retching or vomiting, and 
involuntary discharges of the urine and feces. 

If the condition of the blood were the same in everybody, 
everyone would be overcome by the heat, or all exempted. 
It can readily be seen, therefore, that the heat is a contributing 
factor, but not the true etiology. Whenever the blood is in a 
normal alkali condition, the gastric fluid, perspiration and 
urine are naturally acid and functionate normally; with the 
bloodi saliva, bile, pancreatic and intestinal juices normally 
alkali, they will act also physiologically. Examination in cases 
of sunstroke has determined that the blood exhibits conditions 
which disturb the proportion of the acid and alkaline secre- 
tions, exhibiting acidosis or hyperalkalinity. 

The diet may be such that it produces extreme alkalinity 
of the blood, which disturbs the ratio of these secretions, or 
it may be so irritant as to generate and intensify acidity in the 
system. Whenever these secretions retain their normal ratio, 

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the brain and nerve centers, with oxygen, generate sufficient 
human electricity, or vital energy, to resist and maintain, with 
the sympathetic nerve, the physiological activities of life. 
With the equipoise of the secretions disproportioned, the brain 
and nerve centers generate a weak (non-resistible) electrical 
force. One of the functions of the electrical force, in connec- 
tion with the sympathetic, is to enforce the circulation, and 
transudation of these secretions. In sunstroke the failure of 
these forces allows the secretions to thicken, and the mem- 
branes become dry. Before offering a treatment there is an- 
other idea that ought to be borne in mind, namely, that when 
the patient is unconscious, the system assumes conditions of 
a crisis and absorption is then suspended. This presents the 
reason for therapeutic remedies failing to restore those over- 
come by heat. 

Treatment : The most important feature of the treatment 
should be followed first. The determination of blood to the 
head, accompanied with feelings of pressure, contraction and 
impingement of the brain nerves, suspension of the sym- 
pathetic functions must be controlled. With the patient in a 
supine position and all clothing loosened, gently pour hot 
water on the forehead and vigorously fan the head, face 
and neck. When persevered in, this treatment will evaporate the 
heat and control irritation and determination of blood more rap- 
idly than ice or cold in any form. In extreme cases, it may take 
from one-half to three hours to establish perfect restoration, 
although consciousness may return in half an hour. Amyl nitrate 
should frequently be inhaled, as it assists the quick return of con- 
sciousness. Discoloration of the face and neck will soon disap- 
pear, the pupils will contract, respiration become deeper and easier, 
the pulse slower and stronger. With the return of conscious- 
ness, sensation will come, as noticed by the patient's raising the 
hand to the head, or complaining of pain in head and face; but 
the continuous application of hot water and fan for a while 
longer will control all suffering in the head. The patient will 
now begin to yawn and stretch, at which time the hot applica- 
tions become annoying and are usually resented, though earlier 
they brought great relief. 

Consciousness and restoration being well advanced, we may 
administer the remedies for restoring the deficiencies of the 
blood, which resulted from the disproportioned acid and alkali 
secretions. In order to avoid any resultant sensitiveness to heat, 
give sodium and hydrochloric acid; probably the cell salt Natr. 



218 DIET AND MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES 

Mur. is the better form to use; say, Natr. Mur. 3x, grains xx. 
Aqua Oz. iv. M. Signa : One teaspoonf ul every hour, for three 
or four hours; then two or three hours apart. If the patient 
occasionally complains of his head, potassium and phosphorus 
should be taken in the cell salts form; i. e., Kali Phos. 3x. Grs. 
xx. Aqua Oz. iv. M. Signa: One teaspoonf ul or dram every 
two hours. 

When an infant is overcome with heat, the mother should 
disrobe, pour hot water on its head, fanning it rapidly every 
minute or so, while running a hot cloth over the face and neck. 
She should continuously apply the hot water to the head, face, 
neck and shoulders, and occasionally over the body, also vigor- 
ously using the fan. The result will be satisfactory. 

This treatment is indicated by the heat and determination 
of blood, contraction of brain fibers, and pain, for three condi- 
tions require the control of irritation, evaporation of heat, relax- 
ation of the contracted fibers, and the quick restoration to con- 
sciousness. 



CANCER OF THE RECTUM 

The sensitiveness of rectal tissues and sphincter constric- 
tion offers several obstacles to applying a specifically adapted 
treatment. The leading symptoms occurring from cancer of the 
rectum, are shooting pains, starting at the growth and darting to 
contiguous parts; weight and expulsive pressure; enlarged and 
nodular constriction in digital examination, through the rectum 
and vagina. The participating complication symptoms are ener- 
vation from hyperesthesia of the nerves; capillary paresis, indi- 
cating local stagnation of blood and carbonic acid; obstructed 
absorption and diminished elimination; cyanotic sallow complex- 
ion, exhibiting cell paresis ; plethora or marasmus, due to im- 
perfect metabolism; exudation and predisposition to cold, point- 
ing to deficiencies of the blood; and fatigue, due to local infec- 
tion or autotoxemia. 

All growths are developed from capillary paresis, local 
stagnation of blood and carbonic acid, which evolves ferments 
that displace oxygen, and by the stilling of tissues results in 
inflammation. To absorb a cancer, therefore, the treatment must 
overcome every participating perversion from circulatory par- 
esis .to inflammation. 

Proscribe stimulant foods that cause reflex contractions, 
which, more or less, obstruct all physiologic functions. To build 
red blood disk, give two heaping teaspoonfuls of Hemo, a food 
prepared by Thompson's Malted Food Company, Waukesha, 
Wis., during every meal ; l/40th to l/30th grain of strychnia 
before meals. With flatulency of the bowels and alkalinity of 
the urine give from 30 to 60 minims of dilute hydrochloric acid, 
with an tgg beaten up, cream and milk to fill a glass, taken 
before the morning and evening meals. Give four 3-grain tab- 
lets of Reed and Carnrick's Protonuclein at 10 A. M., 4 and 9 
P. M. Where the growth is hard, alternate four tablets of Kali 
Mur. 3x every four hours with four tablets of Calc Fluor 3x 
every four hours. Where neighboring lymphatic glands are en- 
larged, suspend the biochemic remedies and prescribe: IJ Fl. 
Ext. or Specific Geranium 3ii. ; Thuja 3ii. ; Phytolacca 3ii. ; Aqua 
q. s. §iv. M. Sig. : One dram every three hours. If symptoms 
appear periodically, suspend the last medicine and prescribe: 
5 Potassium acetate 3ii. ; Fl. Ext. or specific Echinacea 3iv. ; 

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220 DIET AND MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES 

Fowler's solution 3ss. ; simple syrup Jj. ; aqua q. s. §iv. ; M. Sig. : 
One dram every three hours and one 2-grain Quinine tablet at 
six, four and two hours anticipating the periodical paroxysm 
for three days. 

A sponge bath should be taken every fourth day, with one 
ounce of chloride of ammonia to one quart of hot water; a tub 
bath may be taken with one and one-half pounds of Epsom salts 
and one dram of 33% phenol; immerse and dry the body three 
times. Take dry towel rubs on intervening days and use an unc- 
tion, as : I£ Petrolatum §ii. ; Tincture of capsicum 3ss. ; M. Sig. : 
Apply daily over the whole body. When these instructions are 
persistently carried out a perceptible improvement of all the 
participating complications will show, that the weakened absorb- 
ent forces are acquiring revitalization. 

There are several metjiods for absorbing cancers. Where 
the growth is accessible, the carbonic acid ferments should be 
removed, by cupping with a device now on the market for emerg- 
ing these toxic gases from growths and which overcomes capil- 
lary paresis, restores normal circulation and local absorption. 
Since inaccessible cancers have been cured by internal medica- 
tion, it is questionable whether necessary to use destructive ap- 
plications on growths located at apertures of the body. 

Local Treatment. — The rectum has little toleration for for- 
eign bodies; therefore, a mild anesthetic should first be applied. 
Take a piece of absorbent gauze one-half inch wide and four 
inches long, fold and attach a string to the ends, saturate it in 
80 minims of warm water containing two or three grains of 
Alypin, and with a sound, pass it into the rectum, to remain 10 
or 12 minutes. Prepare a similar piece of gauze, saturate it in 
an ounce of warm water containing from two to five grains of 
iron sulphate (green vitriol copperas), and pass it into the rec- 
tum, in contact with the growth, to remain as long as tolerated, 
and repeated daily. 

Applications to the rectum of women may be the same as 
with men, but when growths appear in the recto-uterine and 
recto-vaginal walls, two absorbents may be used daily, one in 
the rectum and the other in the vagina. The vaginal pack may 
be prepared with one dram of Epsom salts, one dram of Fl. Ext. 
Phytolacca, and one dram each, of hot water and glycerine. This 
is sufficient to saturate a wool or absorbent cotton, with a string 
attached, for inserting against the cervix and repeated daily. 

In a small work the whole subject of cancer must be 
abridged, but it has been proven, that most all cancerous growths 
may be absorbed by cupping and the use of deterrents. 



CAPACITY OF THE BOWELS 

Many people are troubled with constipation, requiring assist- 
ance to evacuate the bowels. Overeating, liquid and other stim- 
ulating cathartics are irritating and develop a weakness from sim- 
ple constipation to partial paralysis. In order to dispense with 
evacuants, in cases where they are used, I instruct the patient 
how to learn the capacity of their bowels. 

Those who had been eating forty ounces daily, were advised 
to eat only thirty-five ounces daily, for two weeks, after which 
time, if evacuants were necessary, they were told to take only 
thirty ounces, one half of that amount to be of vegetables and 
acid fruits. They were also instructed to reduce such stimulat- 
ing foods as salt, salty meats, coffee, granular sugar and cheese. 
Some were compelled to reduce the amount of foods to twenty- 
five, then to twenty ounces, before their bowels assumed a nor- 
mal action. 

There can be no standard quantity of nourishment for 
everybody, but experience has proven, that the amount, found 
as the capacity of the bowels, will sufficiently nourish the body. 



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COMPLEXION 

Physicians should know the cause of a permanently bad 
complexion, for without this knowledge, treatment will only ob- 
tain a partial improvement. Stimulant foods, such as tea, coffee, 
cocoa, salt, sugar, butter, and all nourishment prepared and cured 
with salt, are the cause of a bad complexion. These foods con- 
tract the cells by overstimulation, followed by relaxation, result- 
ing in cell atony. Such nourishment produces imperceptible ir- 
ritation and determines too much blood to the larger vessels, 
which diminishes the capillaries as observed by anemia of the 
skin. 

The biliary and urinary pigments become deposited in the 
skin, and with cell atony and diminished capillaries, the system 
is unable to absorb and carry them back into the circulation. 
Nineteen persons out of twenty, with a bad complexion, will find 
their daily evacuations of a brownish color, which shows a nor- 
mal biliary elimination. Some persons will doubt that a perma- 
nently bad complexion is a disease, but they must admit that ab- 
normal and weak conditions of the system prevent the restora- 
tion of a clear skin. 

Treatment. — The treatment must restore the capillary circu- 
lation and tonicity to the cells, instead of being directed to the 
liver. Diminish the stimulant foods to a minimum; anoint the 
body once a week and apply dry towel rubbing every morning; 
and prescribe these remedies for restoring the capillary circula- 
tion and tonicity to the cells. 

1$ Calcarea fluor ix. Grs. x. Distilled hamamelis Oz. ss. 
Fl. Ext. or specific med. Belladonna Gtt. vii. Aqua q. s. Oz. 
iv. Misce. Signa: One dram every three hours. 

The complexion will clear slowly or rapidly, depending on 
how the patient observes instructions. 



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HEMOSPASIA 

Hemospasia is a method of dry cupping originated about 
sixty or seventy years ago by a French practitioner for curing 
rheumatism which is falling into disuse partly from the fact that 
it requires a little physical exertion and time for its application. 
Physicians are becomings too ultrascientific to appreciate some 
of our most proficient resources for curing disease. While 
Hemospasia exerts a specific and curative influence on many 
cases of rheumatism, there are other conditions in which it is 
almost indispensable. Plethoric people often present conditions 
of retention of toxins, destruction of the capillaries and loss of 
cell dynamics to such an extent of muscular atony that arterial 
and venous stasis is present. In such a condition there are twing- 
ing pains indicative of impingement of nearly all nerve filaments 
throughout the body. 

The routint Epsom salts bath ordered to remove the toxius 
is unable to do so because the destroyed capillaries are power- 
less to eliminate general cellular edema or bloated condition. By 
its vacuum attraction on the circulatory system, Hemospasia can 
set every cell in motion, improve metabolism, arouse every energy 
and strengthen immunization by one application every twenty- 
four hours for three days, more than can be accomplished by 
three months with therapeutics. The circulation of the legs 
at about the age of 55 to 65 becomes so perverted that edema 
and progressive paralysis, resulting in stumbling, make their 
appearance. Electricity is generally useless until the Hemos- 
pasia treatment has restored the capillaries, absorbed the edema, 
and strengthened the blood. 



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MYSTERIES OF DISEASE 



It appears, that recent graduates in medicine, have given 
little consideration to causes of disease or to complications ob- 
structing restoration. All they desire to know is the condition 
of the patient, which may be obtained by examining for func- 
tional or organic disease. They scarcely ever find the mysteri- 
ous complications of disease, as cell ptosis, diminished capillaries, 
acidosis, hyperalkalinity, indigestion, enervation, permanent sal- 
low complexion and other food markings. 

We will consider the condition of a man who contracted 
syphilis and had been treated for two years by a large number 
of Salvarsan injections and with other authentic methods, with 
little or no relief, during which time the Wassermann reaction 
exhibited negative and positive results. The predominant nour- 
ishment most of his life had consisted of such stimulant foods 
as tea, coffee, cocoa, sugar, butter, fresh and salty meats, and 
other food prepared with salt. These foods increased his heart 
action and dynamic rate of the physiologic functions, and de- 
veloped the following perversions : enervation, cell atony, dimin- 
ished capillaries, acidosis, arterial tension, indigestion, dry skin 
and a permanently bad complexion. It is obvious that the weak- 
ness of these functions inhibited most all reparative action. Then 
how may even a scientist expect to cure syphilis when salvarsan, 
mercury and other medication, not indicated, impair the meta- 
bolic processes? 

Treatment. — The treatment indicated was to strengthen the 
reparative functions by proscribing stimulant foods, oiling the 
skin once a week and dry-towel rubbing every morning. The 
following remedies were prescribed to strengthen the weakened 
reparative functions: 

B Calcarea Fluor ix, Grs. x. Fl. Ext. or Specific med. 
Belladonna Gtts. viii. Distil. Hamamelis Oz. ss. Aqua q. s. Oz, 
iv. M. Signa ; One dram every two or three hours. 

The oiling of the skin and dry rubbing was continued, but 
at the expiration of one month, the medicines were changed to: 

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Iff Iodidi Ammonia 3 iss. Distil. Hamamelis Oz. ss. Fl 
Ext. or Specific Iris 3 iii. Fl. Ext. or Specific med. Podophyl- 
lum 3ss. Aro. Sy. Cascara Oz. i. Aqua q. s. Oz, iv. M, Signa; 
One dram every three hours. Four tablets of Kali mur 3x. were 
alternated or given every four hours. 

By four months treatment of inhibiting stimulant foods and 
restoring of the reparative or metabolic processes, this man was 
relieved of all syphilitic effects. 

The strangest feature about the practice of medicine, is 
the little attention given to foods which build and destroy our 
bodies, and especially after they have developed organic dis- 
eases. How can anyone expect to eliminate autotoxins and the 
foreign infection of spirochaeta pallida with a semi-functioning 
metabolic process? 



THE OPINION OF A PHARMACIST. 

"With regard to the use of certain remedies, we are aware 
of the modern therapy, and the present day practise, by special- 
ists, but unfortunately, the practise of medicine, as it now pre- 
vails, is acknowledged to constitute one of the least exact of 
all sciences, so the theories expounded today are obsolete to- 
morrow. The cherished views of one physician upon the treat- 
ment of a particular malady, becomes an utter fallacy when 
placed in the hands of another. Even our most profound works, 
compiled by the leading lights of the medical world, are often 
discredited by others, with whose findings they may conflict." 

This pharmacist's opinion is quite true, but we ought to know 
why the public has such a lack of confidence in the practise of 
medicine, and why two physicians do not obtain the same re- 
sult with a particular remedy? There can be no uniformity in 
the practise of medicine for men do not possess universal facul- 
ties or equal resources. The practise of medicine to one man 
is a science, to another a trade. Aristotle recognized this when 
he said, "The philosopher should end with medicine, the physician 
begin with philosophy." It was a suggestion that physicians 
should be philosophical thinkers, and be their own authority. 

The people will have confidence in the medical profession, when 
it determines chronic diseases by conditions and not by transient 
symptoms, which are present today and absent tomorrow. The 
predominating foods are impregnated with inorganic and stim- 
ulating substances, that when eaten as a routine and in excess- 
ive quantities, marks the body which indicated the exact condition 
and deviation from health. For instance, coffee is a stimulating 
irritant which marks the body by increasing the dynamic rate 
of the circulation; producing irritation and spasmodic contrac- 
tions which impinges terminal nerves and inducing enervation 
through imperceptible reflex actions; changing the complexion. 

Chlorid of sodium is an inorganic irritant stimulating anti- 
septic, which marks the body by cell ptosis; increasing the dy- 
namic rate of the functions ; anemic skin ; diminished capil- 
laries ; developing arterio-sclerosis ; eczema, psoriasis, reflex ir- 

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ritations, inflammation, plethora, edematous swellings; cancers 
and other growths. 

Granular sugar is an irritant carbon and antiseptic, that 
when combined with other carbons, forms dioxid C0 2 fermenting 
gas and marks the body by general and local hyperemia of the 
capillaries ; thickening the rectal sphincter muscles and develop- 
ing hemorrhoids; the acids which bleach and crystallize sugar 
produce deficiencies of the blood, then eruptions .and other skin 
diseases appear; its excessive use induces indigestion and weak- 
ens oxidation; producing dry skin, neuralgia and constipation. 
These food markings are most all permanent conditions, and 
when the correct food is proscribed, the remedies needed for 
restoration are so positively indicated, that two or more prac- 
titioners will prescribe the same treatment. 

When physicians recognize pathologic food marking as the 
perfect method for determining chronic diseases, which are 
complicated with autointoxication, concealed irritations and local 
infections, then, the public will restore its confidence in the 
practise of medicine. 



CHEMICAL ATTRACTION. 

When treating individuals, affected with chronic diseases, 
I have noticed that a majority had a deficiency in fats. It may 
be suggested that persons so affected, do not eat a sufficiency 
of fats, but we have the unquestionable evidence of those who 
ate excessive quantities of it, and yet had a deficiency. When 
studying the physiologic functions of the system, we recognize 
the fact, that the elements of the proximate principles, have 
proportions, which may fluctuate for a short time with little in- 
jury to the system; but when broken for a period, produce in- 
tractable conditions. 

I know that physiology is almost an obsolete subject, but 
the system possesses so many unsolved problems, which cause 
and prevent restoration of health, as to make it profitable for 
its restudy. The laity have an obscure idea of the necessity of fats 
in the system, but we know the blood of plethorics is more 
anemic than that of the marasmatics, and we want to know 
why. When the ratio of the acid and alkali secretions is broken 
for a period, digestion and oxidation are not well performed, 
nor the required amount of electro-vital energy generated. This 
should be sufficient proof that the proximate principles require 
certain proportions for maintaining a standard organism. 

Beneficial results obtained when treating chronic diseases, 
by increasing the fats in the system, are all the evidence neces- 
sary, that an excessive cell salt of the proximate principle of the 
first class destroys the non-nitrogenous oils of the second class, 
and changes the ratio and nutritive supply of the third class. 
Physiology is compiled from examination of healthy elements 
and secretions,, but we want to know why the supply of a de- 
ficient cell salt or an indicated remedy does not restore an ob- 
structed physiologic function. Administering a remedy of high 
or low potency, and noticing its exacerbating effects does not 
obtain this desired knowledge ; simply because it does not re- 
store the deficient proportions of the body constituents. 

This knowledge can be acquired only by long clinical ob- 
servations, of how certain foods change the aspect of the skin, 
weaken the cells, diminish the capillaries, by disproportioning 

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the elements of the proximate principles. Have we, heretofore, 
been able to tell why we proscribe certain foods and suggest 
others ? 

Practitioners, have proscribed coffee, but the patient no- 
ticed little or no improvement. Coffee is an irritant stimulant 
of the nervous system, but it does not form nor destroy chem- 
ical proportions of the proximate principles. Tea stimulates the 
nervous system but does not disproportion the elements of the 
proximate principles. Crude sugar, being treated with sulphuric 
acid, breaks the chemical ratio of the first class; destroys the 
fats of the second class ; then the system is unable to protect the 
nervous system from atmospheric changes; and by fermentation 
it develops double the amount of the stimulating poison dioxid 
C0 2 gas than it does of the nutritive alcohol. Most of the sugar 
and candy eaters are subject to neuralgias. 

Sodium chlorid, an inorganic cell salt, that when excessive- 
ly eaten disproportions the cell salts of the first class; destroys 
the oily substance of the second class; breaks the ratio of the 
elements of the third class; prolongs chemical reactions; sensi- 
tizes the afferent nerves with reflex irritations, which pervert 
the action of the sympathetic nerve over all of the physiologic 
functions; overstimulates the cells, resulting in ptosis; dimin- 
ishes the capilllaries by determination of blood, by reflex 
irritation. 

If anyone understands how different foods break the ratio 
of the acid and alkali secretions and disproportions the elements 
of the proximate, principles, he will be able to give a philosophi- 
cal reason why certain nourishment should be proscribed. 

It may be of interest to describe a woman's condition, 
when she calls for relief, and this method of determining such 
maladies : Mrs. K., age 55, has had her teeth, tonsils, appendix, 
uterus and ovaries removed. Physicians had determined, that 
one after another of these organs, was producing pus, which, 
entering the blood, was the cause of her illness; but their re- 
moval brought only temporary relief. By the food marking 
method, of determining her illness, I found cell ptosis ; diminished 
capillaries; a slatish colored moist skin; perspiration, without 
natural odor; general relaxation of tissue, accompanied with 
fatigue; pulse 88, indicative of local reflex irritation; tempera- 
ture 98 8/10; sensitive to cold; sugar in her urine, and its acid- 
ity only 20 degrees, ten below normal ; catarrhal colitis ; flatu- 
lency, from perverted secretion of the liver, pancreas and in- 
testines; nervousness and restless sleep. Here is a group of 



230 DIET AND MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES 

physiologic perversions, which some agent or agencies had pro- 
duced by disproportioning the cell salts; destroying the fats; 
perverting the chemical elements; fluctuating the acid and al- 
kali secretions ; diminishing the capillaries, by determining blood 
and secretions to internal organs, for controlling irritations. 

This woman ate excessively of salt, mackerels and smoked 
herrings; she had been advised to eschew sugar, and did so for 
six years, on account of a diabetic symptom, which it did not 
improve. As she did not have a coffee complexion, it became 
philologically to proscribe sodium chlorid and sugar, because 
they are the only inorganic elements which enter the blood as 
nourishment in excessive quantities. 

Treatment: By prescribing I£ Dilute hydrochloric acid 
Oz. iss. Aqua q. s. Oz. iii. M. Sig : One dram, added to a beaten up 
egg and milk Oz. vii : Taken before morning and evening meals. 
This improved digestion, oxidation and restored the acid ratio 
to the secretions; olive oil internally increased the fats; anoint- 
ing the skin once a week, followed by dry towel rubs every 
morning, refilled the capillaries and assisted excretion. The 
introduction of five ounces of a carbolated solution of sulphate 
of magnesia into the colon every morning after evacuation of 
the bowels, controlled infection, colitis and reflex irritation, 
which slowed the pulse. By prescribing IJ Calcarea fluor 3x. 
Grs. x. Distilled hamamelis Oz. ss. Fl. Ext. or Specific med. Bella- 
donna Gtt. vii. Aqua q. s. Oz. iv. M. Sig : One dram every three 
hours, tonicity was restored to the cells, muscles, osmosis and 
metabolism. 

It can scarcely be substantiated that the majority of dis- 
eases are attributed to the invasion of parasites, when it can be 
proven beyond a doubt that an excessive cell salt entering the 
blood disproportions the elements of the proximate principles, 
produces cell ptosis, empties the capillaries, destroys the fats 
and perverts the reparative functions. 



VARICOSIS 



Text books contain little on varicosis, while many are sus- 
ceptible to local weaknesses, as shown by mitral insufficiency 
from cardioptosis and cardiectasis ; floating kidneys ; enteropto- 
sis, (Glenard's disease), varicocele and varicose veins. These 
conditions are generally produced by a stimulant diet, which in- 
creases the heart action and dynamic rate of the physiologic func- 
tions, and are often accompanied by cardiac tension (high or low 
blood pressure). These conditions are quite amenable to treat- 
ment, when a nonstimulant nourishment is ordered, and remedies 
prescribed, which will overcome hyperesthesia of the nerves, re- 
store the capillaries, cell atony and perverted osmosis. 

Because such palliative methods as the elastic stocking and 
rubber bandages have failed to cure varicose veins of the legs, no 
efforts have been made to find a permanent cure. This is because 
physicians have inconsistently denied that foods produce disease, 
and then order a diet while treating certain conditions. The 
stimulant foods which increase the rate of the physiologic func- 
tions and result in cell atony, diminished capillaries and perverted 
osmosis are tea, coffee, sugar, salt, meat, salty meat, and all 
foods cured and preserved with salt and vinegar. There are 
plenty of foods which would nourish the body that do not in- 
crease the speed of the physiologic functions and pervert their 
action. 

Treatment : When treating varicosis two things must be 
strictly observed : First, the nourishment must not stimulate the 
dynamic rate of the physiologic functions. Second, the thera- 
peutical and mechanical treatment must be such as will overcome 
ptosic conditions. With a nonstimulant diet strictly enforced, we 
will prescribe the following remedies, to restore tonicity to the 
cells, increase the capillary circulation and strengthen osmotic 
weakness : 

5 Calcarea Fluor IX. Grs. X. Distilled hamamelis OZ ss. 
Fl. Ext. or specific med. belladonna Gtt VL Aqua q. s. OZ IV. 
Misce. Signa: One dram every three hours. 

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When the varicosis of the heart, bowels and kidneys have 
not developed to an organic condition, this prescription will even- 
tually restore them ; but varicose veins of the legs, for the weight 
of the body maintains the venous weakness. The weakness of 
the varicose veins and legs requires a mechanical support. — a real 
support, not a palliative one, — such as a flannel bandage three 
and one quarter inches wide and fifteen to eighteen feet long or 
enough to cover the foot from the toes to the knee, which when 
properly applied does not obstruct the circulation of the leg like 
the elastic stocking. 

Wash the legs every fourth day with epsom salts OZ 11. 
carbolic acid 33 1/3 o/o Gtt. XX. Aqua q. s. Oz. 11. Wipe dry 
and apply the following oils: Oil cinnamon 3ii. Oil Cajeput 
3ii. Oil cloves 3ii. Spirits turpentine 3ii. Olive oil Oz. i. 
Misce. Signa: Apply by rubbing the legs with it thoroughly 
every morning before bandaging. When commencing to bandage 
the foot, place a cotton pledget under the toes and one on top in 
the hollow back of the toes, and one in the hollow under each of 
the ankle bones. 

If the washing, oiling and bandages are properly applied, 
and the above prescription taken varicose veins of the legs will 
disappear. 



CANCER OF THE FACE 

An individual affected with a cancer may be able to work, 
but if an inventory be taken of his condition, it will present in- 
disputable evidence that several of his physiological functions are 
greatly weakened. It will usually present enervation from hy- 
peresthesia of the nerves ; skin of a slate-colored sallowness, 
exhibiting perverted capillaries and cell inaction; perverted me- 
tabolism, snowing indigestion, constipation or diarrhea, plethora 
or marasmus ; fatigue upon slight exertion and chills ; retention 
of toxins and predisposition to colds. 

Can anyone believe that the removal of a growth will restore 
all these reparative forces, or will anyone attempt to cure a can- 
cer by absorption, without strengthening these functional fail- 
ures ? To absorb a cancer on the face, or of the breast, stomach, 
bowels, uterus, bladder and rectum, every functional failure must 
be strengthened, for assisting the absorbent and reparative forces. 

The general treatment consists of proscribing salt, salty 
meats, tea. coffee, granular sugar, pickles, wine and liquors. 
5 Dilute hydrochloric acid §J \ aqua, I ounce. M. Sig. : One 
teaspoonful to a beaten-up egg t with enough cream and milk to 
fill a glass, to be taken before morning and evening meals ; four 
Reed and Carnrick's 3-grain protonuclein tablets at 10 A. M.. 4 
and 9 P. M. One l-40th to l-30th of strychnia sulphate tablets 
before meals. As a red corpuscle builder, give two heaping tea- 
spoonfuls of "Hemo" in a glass of warm water with each meal, 
a food manufactured by Thompson's Malted Food Company, of 
Waukesha, Wis. Epsom salts baths should be taken every fourth 
day, a dry towel rub every morning on intervening days, and the 
following unction applied over the whole body: ]$ White Petro- 
latum. \V 2 oz. ; Tincture of Capsicum, Y* dram. When these in- 
structions are strictly observed, all of these functional failures 
will become strengthened, for assisting the local treatment to ab- 
sorb almost any growth. 

The local treatment of an unbroken cancer on the face, con- 
sists of compresses bound on every night; a growth on the lip, 
on the side or end of the nose, may be brushed over with a 10 

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per cent solution of chromic acid every day. Put two ounces of 
Epsom salts into one quart of hot water in a clean basin, add 
fifteen drops of 33 per cent of phenol, hold the face in it as long 
as possible, dry with towel and repeat by wetting and drying three 
or four times morning and night. Prepare a compress solution of 
1$ Epsom salts, 1 oz. ; Fl. Ext., or specific Phytolacca, 1 oz. ; 33% 
Phenol Gtt, X. ; hot water q. s., 4 oz. Saturate a thick piece of 
cotton in this hot solution, and oind it on over the growth every 
night. This compress will, when properly applied, absorb and 
draw out the ferments or cause of the growth. 

When the growth is an open sore it should be cleansed with 
peroxide, then with bichloride of mercury 1-2000 to 1-1000, and 
brushed over with a 5 per cent solution of chromic acid ; the com- 
press solution should be reduced thirty or forty per cent and 
bound on nights. As the thickened edges slough off and become 
raw the cleansing and compress applications should be reduced 
from time to time, until the condition requires a mild, drying, 
antiseptic dressing for completing the treatment. 



RHEUMATISM OR BROKEN ARCHES 

It is no uncommon thing for individuals to be affected with 
broken arches, complicated with rheumatism — or vice-versa. Both 
conditions are often treated for the latter trouble. 

Since much of the nourishment is blended with stimulating 
substances, which develop cell paresis and muscular ptosis, there 
are many affected with broken-down arches of the feet, and it is 
often difficult to determine which causes the suffering. Broken- 
down arches are not always the true factor, for when a rheu- 
matic treatment fails to give permanent relief a history of the 
case may show that the patient has had several inflammatory at- 
tacks of the feet and with the weight of the body, which often 
form an intractable ptosic aftermath, such as sometimes follows 
rheumatism. 

Two etiologic factors are present with the broken-down 
arches and aftermath of rheumatism, as muscular ptosis and 
sore, sensitive lameness to weight. 

Treatment. — Artificial supports usually relieve the pain and 
overcome the sensitive lameness by maintaining the natural posi- 
tion of the arch of the foot. The treatment to overcome the 
aftermath or results of several attacks of inflammatory rheuma- 
tism has been very unsatisfactory, for the condition has not been 
well understood. Each attack of inflammatory rheumatism 
causes capillary paresis and stagnation of blood, which develops 
pain, heat, redness and swelling, from which perfect contraction 
takes place only by a specifically adapted treatment following 
their subsidence. This leaves cell and muscular paresis, with 
retention of toxins and a sensitive lameness to weight of the 
body, which does not yield to various rheumatic treatments. To 
remove the sensitive lameness of the aftermath following rheu- 
matic attacks of the feet, they should be bathed with Epsom salts, 
an ounce to the pint of hot water, morning and night, followed 
by a thorough rubbing with the following oils : 

IJ Oil of Sassafras 3j v 

Oil of Cajuput 3jv 

Cloves 3jv 

Olive Oil 3jv 

and bandaged with flannel from the toes to the knee. The Ep- 
som baths remove the toxins and lameness; the oils restore cell 
and muscular tonicity; and the bandages protect the feet from 
the weight of the body. 

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SUBSTITUTING BACTERIOLOGY 

Has a knowledge of bacteriology satisfied expectation, in re- 
lieving suffering and controlling disease? Its propaganda has 
removed the support of nosology by inhibiting the teaching of 
symptomatology, materia medica and much of pathology. It is 
impossible to determine and classify acute and especially chronic 
diseases, and name them, without considerable knowledge of 
these passing studies. The lack of ability to diagnose some very 
simple ailments, by recent graduates in medicine, emphasizes not 
only the effect of the abandoned studies to the public, but destroys 
confidence in the medical profession. This is substantiated by 
the advent of many methods of drugless healing, growth of Chris- 
tian Science, and the increase of hospitals. Surgery has made 
substantial progress, but another important branch of knowledge 
is how best to conserve the waste energy of the sympathetic 
nervous system, and which, by the way, introduces the subject of 
irritation and reflex action. 

The pathology of every known and unknown disease is ac- 
companied with irritation, and more or less reflex action, which 
are symptom-producers. Is it then possible to qualify as a diag- 
nostician, without a knowledge of symptomatology? How about 
prescribing specifically, without a knowledge of materia medica! 
1 'Pathology, specifically, the science of the nature of diseases." 
Deficiency in this branch makes it difficult to determine the dis- 
ease-producing irritations, effects caused by chemical reactions, 
and imperceptible reflex contractions of the cells. 

Recent events of the war have proved the great need of 
the therapeutist, and folly of recognizing bacteriology, at the 
neglect of the three essential branches of medical practice. The 
people should be thankful that the Eclectic and Homeopathic 
schools have something better to offer than the bacteriologic 
"Hobson's choice." 



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PERVERTED OSMOSIS 

If one is anxious to learn how the excessive use of chlorid 
of sodium perverts cell dynamics and osmosis, try snuffing a so- 
lution of salt through the nasal passages three or four times per 
week for several months. 

At first it softens and liquifies hardened catarrhal exudation 
and clears the passages, but the nasal capillaries soon acquire an 
edematous, or water-logged condition, so when lying on the side 
the lower nostril becomes impervious to breathing. Osmotic 
pressure of the nasal passages is transferred by changing sides, 
when the other nostril becomes impervious. 

This is substantiated by the enormous amount of urine 
eliminated by cell contractions, when colds are contracted. 



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HEMOPHILIA 

In recent years biologic examinations of the blood have de- 
termined why some individuals die of hemorrhage from acci- 
dents, abortion and operations. These investigations, as usual, 
giving the condition of the blood, but not the cause. We have 
heard many times how different things occur, without cause; 
but we are inclined to believe that the blood acquires an un- 
coagulable condition from either a deficiency of some cell salt, 
due to improper nourishment, or to inorganic chemical combina- 
tions, formed in the system. We do not deny the congenital 
occurrence of hemophilia, when we know how deficiencies of the 
maternal diet pervert the physiologic functions so as to develop 
ectrogenic monstrosities. 

Following the finding of biologic examination that the blood 
is deficient of coagulable constituents, drug manufacturers have 
devised a serum, which when given subcutaneously will produce 
coagulability of the blood. Clinical observation amounts to 
nothing with the producers or users of this serum. With such 
incomplete knowledge it is necessary, for safety, to test the blood 
of every individual and inject those who need a major or a 
minor operation. 

As a specialist in diseases of women, I have met many in- 
tractable cases of menorrhagia and metrorrhagia, and am able 
usually to ascertain whether hemorrhage will occur following 
operations by the signs and markings which individuals exhibit. 

Scarcely a day passes in determining diseases that does not 
emphasize the necessity for acquiring more knowledge of the 
effects of foods on the system. This knowledge can be obtained 
only by long and close observation of how the influence of foods 
impinge the sympathic terminal nerves and affect the acid and 
alkali secretions and secondarily the blood. 

Every time that a practitioner is satisfied with a biologic 
finding of conditions, which gives no cause for them, he loses 
his ability to determine some of the most common diseases. 



RECTAL DISEASES 

The subject of rectal diseases is seldom understood by the 
laymen. The rectum, endowed as it is with the terminal spinal 
nerves, in connection with the great sympathetic, is subject 
to much reflex action by irritations from other parts 
of the body. These reflex actions overcome the elasticity of the 
rectum, producing one form of constipation with imperfect 
evacuations. In this condition there is a determination of blood, 
and when hard fecal matter is passing some part of the sigmoid 
flexure becomes inflamed and injured, developing ulcers, fissures 
and fistulas. Though causing little pain, they are, nevertheless, 
a source of much infection and reflex irritation, with which many 
persons suffer, in cachexia or chronic malaria. Such persons are 
always affected with periodicity, feeling badly in the morning or 
afternoon, or have restless nights. They are continuously being 
infected in some part of the body, as in the intestines, kidneys, 
uterus, bladder, sigmoid flexure, or by decomposing substances 
in the blood from overeating. 

Any one of these reflex troubles may induce sufficient irrita- 
tion to produce reflex sciatica, backache, headache, neuralgic pains 
in any part of the system, cold extremities, cramping legs, 
hemorrhages, internal and external hemorrhoids, and prostato- 
cystitis. These conditions induce great enervation, and by reflex 
action, pervert the circulation, obstruct elimination, and cause 
sensitiveness to colds. 

The majority of those who are tired and languid most of 
the time are unconsciously being infected from some of the aper- 
tures of the body, producing a condition that makes life one 
eternal contest, for colds aggravate irritations and invite infec- 
tion. 

Those who suffer with rectal troubles need a treatment that 
will control all the conditions and exert a permanent influence. 
Since the rectum forms the exit for the alimentary canal, its 
tissues become irritated, inflamed, weak, inelastic, contracted and 
infiltrated with toxins — conditions which can be corrected only 
by keeping the rectum clean. How shall this be done? When- 

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ever any part of the body becomes diseased, a way must be found 
to avert its destructive influence on the system, and the treatment 
that will correct conditions with least inconvenience is the one 
indicated and wanted. 

Treatment. Irritations of the rectum cause a determination 
of mucus to the mucosa, and through inflammation, decompose 
and supply a culture menstru-um for germs, producing infection 
in a few hours. This condition is easily controlled by following 
these instructions: 

Place one dram of Epsom salts into eight ounces of warm 
water, add ten drops of Phenol, and, after the evacuation of the 
bowels every morning, throw four ounces of this solution into 
the rectum and pass it off. Then introduce the remaining four 
ounces in the same way. This treatment, which should be re- 
peated every morning after evacuation of the bowels, requires 
only two minutes, controls irritation and inflammation, restores 
the elasticity, removes decomposed mucus and depurates the 
toxins. 

Elderly men and women suffer with rectal diseases varying 
from irritation to paralysis and cancer, but by keeping the rectum 
cleanly, they will be rewarded by less pain and better health. 



NEURALGIA 

Neuralgia is also caused by hyperesthesia and deficient nutri- 
tion of the nervous system, local irritation, reflex irritation, im- 
pingement, hyperemia, inflammation and exposure of local nerves. 
Hyperesthesia is an oversensitive condition of the nervous sys- 
tem caused by incompatible, irritant and overstimulating foods. 
This is the form that induces such extreme nervousness and is 
easily controlled by proscribing irritant foods. 

Neuralgia from deficiencies of the blood is often caused by 
a lack of Magnesia Phosphorica or Calcium Sulphate, and when 
supplied the pain ceases. 

Neuralgia of the face, intercostal and rectal nerves is due 
to local irritation from pressure, shortening of fibers by colds, 
hyperemia and inflammation. 

Reflex neuralgia is generally due to reflected local irritations 
from fermenting tissues, known as metritis of the endometrium; 
as teeth and face pains ; severe headaches before and after men- 
struation; intestinal irritations accompanied with neuralgic head- 
aches from physics and constipation ; constriction of the rectal, 
cardiac and pylorus sphincters. This form frequently results in 
hemiparesis, hemiparaplegia, and many other local forms of 
paralysis. The treatment consists of determining the local irri- 
tation and controlling it. Two of the most positive signs of 
concealed irritation are the weak, increased, pulsations or strong, 
full, rapid pulse. 

Neuralgia due to impingement, may take place at any of the 
internal or peripheral parts of the body ; irritation and reflex irri- 
tation caused by fermenting tissues, which develop inflammation, 
and then generate carbon dioxid gases, may produce neuralgic 
pains, making it difficult to determine the cause. The treatment 
must determine the cause and location of the irritations and 
control them; also relax the impinging fibers or muscles, by 
manipulations or physiological adjustment, when due to com- 
pression of spinal nerves. Internal impingement of nerves is 
frequently due to spasmodic contraction or paresis of fibers or 
muscles; in these cases, the treatment should be the mildest cur- 

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rent of electricity, applied from two to six or even eight hours, 
with the anode at the nape of the neck and cathode in the rectum. 
This relaxes the contracted fibers or impingement and overcomes 
nerve and muscular paresis. 

Hyperemic neuralgia occurs from a local determination of 
blood, with pressure on nerve filaments, by swelling; diminished 
capillaries resulting in impoverished nutrition, and slight trauma 
with blood stasis. The determination of blood should be con- 
trolled, the nutrition improved with proper nonirritant diet, and 
the capillaries restored with atropine, specific belladonna or by 
dry cupping. 

Neuralgia, due to exposure or nonprotection of local nerves, 
has proved quite intractable to conventional measures. There 
are two reasons : First, it is not generally known that the exces- 
sive eating of white granular sugar is its etiology; secondly, the 
condition of the system is not well understood, for there is always 
a subthermal condition and the skin covering the neuralgic pain 
has lost its capillary or protecting circulation. The etiology of 
some cases is due to diminished fats of the system. The treat- 
ment should proscribe the sugar, restore the capillary circulation 
with dry towel rubs and stimulating inunctions, and the fats re- 
stored by eating more nonirritant fats and olive oil. 

Treatment: If examination of the blood shows acidosis: 
Give acetas sodium or potassium ; with intense alkalinity : pre- 
scribe J$ Dilute hydrochloric acid Oz. iss aqua q. s. Oz, iii M. 
Sig : One dram beaten up with an tgg, cream Oz. ss. Milk Oz. v. 
Sig. : Taken before morning and evening meals. For irritant 
and deficiency of the blood: Inhibit tea, coffee, sugar and meat 
for a few days and give: Magnesia Phosphorica 3x. five grains 
in hot water every 5 or 10 minutes, then farther apart. Odon- 
talgia from deficiency of phosphate of lime for fetal develop- 
ment give : Calcarea Phos. 6x. Four tablets every three or four 
hours. When the Schuessler remedies fail to relieve facial 
neuralgia; break up the cold, control overeating and give 5 
Salicylic acid 3ss, alcohol §ss, Spe. Med. Apocynum 5j, Tinct. 
Phosphorus 3ss, Tinct. Capsicum Gtt. xv, Spe. Med. Belladonna 
Gtt. v. Aqua q. s. §iii. M. Sig. : One dram every 2 or 3 hours. 
Reflex neuralgia from fermenting tissues, Metritis, Colitis and 
Sigmoiditis : Washout the uterus with weak solutions of peroxid 
of hydrogen, alternated with an alkaline antiseptic; irrigate the 
colon and rectum every morning after evacuation. Restore local 
nerve protection by increasing oxidation and giving: Spe. Med. 
Belladonna Gtt. x. Tinct. Capsicum Gtt. v. Aqua q. s. 3iv. M. Sig: 



DIET AND MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES 243 

One dram every 2 or 3 hours. Many cases of intractable neuralgia 
result from overeating and if the ingestion and its decomposition 
are not controlled, sooner or later, insanity will occur. A few 
days of fasting relieves the pain and shows what can be accom- 
plished when a minimum amount of nourishment is taken. 



BRONCHO PNEUMONIA 

In 1870, when the etiology of broncho pneumonia was recog- 
nized as due to inhalations, suppressed secretions and inflamma- 
tion, treated by symptom indications and assisted with warm oxy- 
gen, the mortality was from 3 to 6 per cent. In 1918, when its 
etiology is recognized only as pneumococci and all cases treated 
as typical pneumonia, assisted with cold oxygen, the mortality is 
40 to 60 per cent. There are causes which explain the difference 
in mortality. First, fever was universally present, with the cir- 
culation and absorbent functions active although locally ob- 
structed but the indicated vegetable sedatives, relaxatives and 
absorbents controlled the deposit and reflexes, and restored secre- 
tions, which usually resulted in resolution. Second, in recent 
years quite a large per cent of those attacked with pneumonia are 
free from fever and the absorbent and circulatory functions are 
then more obstructed by deposits, subthermal conditions and 
reflex contractions of lung fibers. In such a condition the 
serum treatment which destroys pneumococci exerts no influence 
for restoring secretions, while the unlimited supply of cold oxygen 
increases the deposit and reflex contractions, which are the con- 
tributing causes of early deaths. 

In 1870 we knew nothing of the pneumococci but recognized 
their effects as stagnation of blood vessels, accumulation of carbon 
dioxid, fermentation of tissues and resulting inflammation of the 
lungs. The treatment at that time, with the indicated remedies 
and ventilated oxygen, overcame the stagnated vessels and in- 
flammation, which maintained a low mortality. As an illustration 
of our treatment we treated the traumatism, from the kick of a 
horse, instead of the kick. 

The conventional opinion now is to recognize only the 
pneumococci as cause and not their effect, that is inflammation. 
The treatment of removing the cause by destroying the pneu- 
mococci with serums and cold oxygen results in the higher mor- 
tality. Destroying the pneumococci, after they have produced 
a dangerous condition, is like treating the kick of the horse in- 
stead of the traumatism. 

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PERCEPTIBLE AND IMPERCEPTIBLE IRRITATION 

There are many physiological activities of the system that 
are difficult at times to determine, and which are insidiously de- 
veloping pathological conditions. Among these activities are 
perceptible and imperceptible irritation, which are seldom recog- 
nizable when diagnosing chronic diseases. One would imagine 
that the biologist, by the examination of systemic secretions, 
could determine these disease-producing activities, but they still 
appear as unsettled questions. 

The biologists could become benefactors, by determining 
what foods, through chemical reaction and imperceptible irrita- 
tion, increase the dynamic rate of the physiologic functions. It 
appears that no efforts are spared to determine the condition 
which imperceptible irritations are producing; for instance, the 
sphygmograph, a recording pulsimeter, to give a grapaic record 
of the form and rate of the pulse. This information is worth- 
less in comparison with a knowledge of how certain combinations 
of foods, by chemical reactions, form imperceptible irritations, 
which increase the dynamic rate of the functions. 

Will the sphygmograph furnish assistance to a physician, 
when a patient needs relief from some chronic perversion, pro- 
duced by the perceptible irritation, which increases the dynamic 
rate of his heart from the effect of smoking cigarettes ? We find 
patients who have been nourished by stimulant foods which have 
increased the dynamic rate of their osmotic pressure, as shown by 
liquids, beginning to pass through the system, within a half hour 
after their ingestion. 

For this annoying condition we will prescribe I£ Ammon- 
ium chlorid 3i. Distilled hamamelis 3iii. Specific Med. Bella- 
donna Gtt. v. Aqua q. s. Oz. iv. Misce. Signa : One dram every 
two hours. This restores tonicity to the cells, so that osmosis 
functionates better, as shown by liquids being retained several 
hours before beginning to be eliminated. This can be substan- 
tiated by those who are affected with weak cells, and perverted 
osmosis, by being compelled to pass large quantities of colorless 
urine, when slightly chilled. 

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246 DIET AND MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES 

Perverted osmosis is the greatest preventive factor of ob- 
taining relief, when treating rheumatism and especially prostatic 
diseases. It is scarcely worth while to mention these diseases, 
when most all chronic conditions are complicated with weak cells 
and perverted osmosis, resulting from perceptible and impercepti- 
ble irritation. There is scarcely a phenomenal occurrence in the 
system that is not more or less manifested by weakness of the 
cells or osmotic pressure. 

The Orificial surgeons are directing special attention to 
impingement of the sympathetic terminal nerves, but not their 
cause, which results from perceptible and imperceptible irritation. 

To practice medicine successfully, we must have the ability 
not only to determine conditions, but to find the cause of diseases. 

Biologic examinations may find some of the perversions 
which perceptible and imperceptible irritations have developed, 
but practitioners must discover the cause of diseases by clinical 
observation. 



ECZEMA 

An acute or chronic noncontagious inflammatory disease of 
the skin. Being noncontagious it is developed by many different 
irritant conditions of the blood. A few causes of irritant blood 
are cell atony ; perverted metabolism ; perverted circulation ; sup- 
pressed secretions; indigestion; irritation of the mucous mem- 
branes ; reflex irritation and infection from local inflammations ; 
overeating; improper food thati>reaks the ratio of the acid and 
alkali and other secretions; retention of toxins and deficiencies 
of the cell salts. 

Irritant blood does not always develop eczema but it may 
produce secondary effects that result in numerous skin diseases. 
For instance, blonds who have been affected with eczema, almost 
a life time, from the excessive eating of salt, and which disap- 
peared without treatment by its reduction. The excessive use of 
coffee and sugar produces skin diseases by perverting the circu- 
lation. A perverted circulation diminishes general elimination 
but concentrates toxins which inflame the skin in patches. This 
is substantiated by non-protection of the sciatic nerve by the skin, 
and on the other hand, the offensive perspiration of the axilla, 
hands and feet, which excrete normally whenever the general 
circulation is restored. 

Treatment: Inhibit such nourishment as: Excessive use 
of coffee, sugar, salt, pickles and other stimulating and indigesti- 
ble raw foods that break the ratio of the acid and alkali ; cause 
chemical reactions, reflex irritations, perversions of the blood 
and circulation. Equalize general elimination and correct the 
circulation by dry towel rubbing every morning, remove the 
toxins with magnesia sulphate baths and apply olive oil to the 
skin every week. Overcome acidosis with potassae acetate 3ij. 
Aqua q. s. §iij. M. Sig. : One dram every three hours. For 
alkalinity IJ Dilute hydrochloric acid gjss., Aqua q. s. §iij. M. 
Sig.: One dram beaten up with one egg, cream §j., milk 3 v J-» 
taken before morning and evening meals. Of the Schuessler 
remedies Kali Mur. is an absorbent and supplies deficiencies of 
the blood. Lobelia controls reflex action. 3$ Kali Mur. 3 to 6 
x. 3ss. Spe. Med. Lobelia Gtt. viij. Aqua q. s. Oz. iv. M. Sig.: 
One dram every three hours. 

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LEAD POISONING 



Painters, printers and other mechanics who work with or 
handle lead are liable to lead poisoning, and the question arises, 
why are some men more seriously affected by it than others? 
To answer that some men are more predisposed to lead poisoning 
than others is elusive unless a reason is given that will account 
for the predisposition. Then the answer means the solving of 
another one of those mysterious pathological problems retained 
by the human system. 

Any chemical which affects the system produces its effect 
through its influence in the blood. Lead combines with fibrin 
and albumen, forming insoluble compounds. Can insoluble com- 
pounds be eliminated from the system? Insoluble compounds 
that have not been deposited in the osseous system, like mercury, 
may be eliminated. It is difficult for some to believe that the 
circulation of the alimentary canal may be more perverted than 
that of the skin and extremities. An extremely perverted circu- 
lation of the intestines will allow the mucosa to absorb lead and 
form irritant deposits, resulting in lead colic, which enervation, 
muscular atony and sclerosed vessels are unable to eliminate. 

To eliminate lead from the system, the first move must be 
to remove the primary cause of enervation, muscular atony and 
perversion of the circulation, by inhibiting the use of chloride 
of sodium, sugar and overeating. These are the causes that 
produce the conditions which make it impossible to eliminate lead 
from the system even by chemicals which form with it soluble 
combinations. 

When examining patients affected with colics from lead 
poisoning, and who present part of all of these systoms, such as 
the well-defined gingival blue line, black sulphite patches, tremors 
and wrist-drop, physicians should not imagine that remedies 
which have failed with others will cure them, for the remedies 
which form soluble compounds with lead in the system are unable 
to eliminate them until enervation, perverted circulation and mus- 
cular atony have been corrected. 

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DIET AND MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES 249 

Treatment: The treatment for lead poisoning should begin 
with instructions to inhibit the use of chloride of sodium, sugar, 
and overeating; for enervation, prescribe one 4-gr. tablet of 
chromium sulphate after each meal and two on retiring; for the 
depleted capillaries, perverted circulation and muscular atony, 
give the following: 

5 Specific Medicine or Fl. Ext., Ergot 3vj 

Specific Medicine or Fl. Ext. Belladonna . Gtt. viii 

Distilled Hamamelis Jss 

Aqua q. s §iv 

M. Sig: One dram every three hours. 

In extreme perversion of the circulatory system and muscu- 
lar atony this treatment may be assisted by hemospasia. 

Prescribing the usual antidotes — sulphate of sodium, sulphate 
of magnesium, or cathartic doses of powdered alum, say, 40 to 50 
grains in a glass of hot water every two or three hours or until 
the bowels have been thoroughly emptied — will usually secure 
good results. 

Who has not seen the gingival blue line, cyanosis of the 
tongue, mouth and gums with the wrist-drop and other forms of 
paralysis, which resulted from other causes than lead poisoning? 
In the majority of cases where the absorption of lead if followed 
with local paralysis, it should be considered as a contributing 
factor (coincident) and not the true etiology. 



ENURESIS 

Enuresis is a disease of children (wetting the bed) that 
may be controlled by a treatment adapted to the indications which 
may be edema of the spinal cord; atony of the cysto-sphincter 
due to alkalinity of the urine ; reflex irritation from the eyes, 
bowels, rectum or prepuce. 

Treatment: For spinal edema produce external irritation, 
dry cupping aided with 5 Specific or Fl. Ext. of Apocynum Gtt. 
X. Ergot 3iii. Nux Vomica Gtt. V. Simp. Sy Oz. 1. Aqua q. s. 
Oz. iii. M. Sig.: One teaspoonful every 3 hours. 

For alkalinity of the urine give 1$ Dilute hydrochloric acid 
Siij ss., Aqua q. s. Oz. iii. M. Sig. : One teaspoonful beaten up 
with a half of an egg } cream Oz. i., milk Oz. iii. To be taken 
before morning and evening meals. 

The eyes should be examined and fitted with glasses for 
irritation and reflexes. 

For reflex irritation and infection of the bowels, examine 
for lifeless color and sensitiveness from deep pressure on the 
abdomen and give 1$ Bismuth subnitrate 3ss. Distilled Hama- 
melas 3ij. Specific or Fl. Ext. Lobelia Gtt. x. Aqua q. s. Oz. iv., 
M. Sig. : One teaspoonful every 3 hours. 

To determine colitis examine for external sensitiveness by 
passing cotton pledgets a few inches through the rectal speculum 
and sigmoid flexure and when withdrawn if covered with bloody 
mucus colitis exists. Cleanse the colon every morning after 
evacuation with six to eight ounces of warm water and half to 
one dram of sulphate of Magnesia. 

If there is phimosis or adhesion of the prepuce have the 
child circumcised. 



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LYMPHADENITIS 

Lymphadenitis is inflammation and endurated enlargement 
of the lymphatic glands in the neck. The glands are sensitive to 
examination in the acute stage, but not when in a chronic condi- 
tion. The most frequent causes "are incipient tuberculosis ; ex- 
cessive use of coffee and granular sugar; improper nourishment; 
reflex irritation and deficiency of the cell salts. 

Treatment: Prohibit coffee and sugar and prescribe Natr, 
Sulph or Sodium sulphate 3x. Three tablets every two hours, 
or give 1$ Specific or Fl. Ext. Phytolacca 3ij. Fowler's solution 
3ss. Aqua q. s. Co iv. M. Sig. : One teaspoonful every three 
hours. For children reduce Phytolacca to one dram. Fowler's 
solution Gtt. x. Aqua q. s. Oz. iv. M. Sig.: One teaspoonful 
every three hours. 



251 



DIPHTHERITIC 

In this disease, which resembles diphtheria, the inflamma- 
tion and fibrinous, grayish deposit and infection, are in the larynx, 
instead of on the tonsils and in the nasal passages. What a 
practitioner wants to know, is why a child dies of this disease, 
after he has cured several consecutive cases. It is because the 
fatal case is subject to spasmodic contractions, from the slightest 
irritation, resulting in reflex paralysis of the superior and inferior 
branches of the pneumo-gastric nerve and erytenoid muscles. 
While these nerves and muscles are in a contracted or paralytic 
state, subculoyd lobelia, antitoxin injections and therapeutic ef- 
forts will fail to save life, and these are the cases that die after 
intubation. 

Treatment. — The electro-positive to the nape of the neck, 
and the electro-negative over and around the larynx, with either 
the mildest faradic or sinusoidal current applied from one to three 
hours will control irritation, relax the shortened bundles of the 
erytenoid muscles and overcomes the paralysis of the nerves. 

The title is authorized for croup. 



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PYORRHEA 

The reason for the increase of pyorrhea in recent years can 
be traced to the same factors that increase all organic diseases. 
Inflammation, the cause of organic diseases, is due to local blood 
stagnation, followed by an accumulation of carbonic acid gas, 
C0 2 , and fermentation of tissues. The periosteum of the teeth is 
as subject to inflammatory action as the heart, lungs or kidneys. 
A great many causes have been offered for the increase of organic 
diseases, but a consensus of opinion is that diminished cell dy- 
namics is the most important factor. 

Pyorrhea and organic diseases are correspondingly multiply- 
ing with the preponderance of chemically prepared foods on the 
market. Since the enactment of the pure food law of 1906 col- 
loidal antiseptics have been increasingly used in prepared foods 
that interfere with chemical reactions, creating irritation and im- 
perceptible reflex mechanical contraction of the cells. The cells 
remain contracted until the imperceptible irritation subsides, with 
resultant perversion of the metabolic processes. A tri-daily repe- 
tition of these imperceptible irritations and reflex mechanical in- 
fluences on the cells removes their expansive and cantractile 
power. 

It is not possible then to control the inflammation of the peri- 
osteum and necrosis of the alveoli processes as long as the diet 
predominates with foods which exert these mechanical contrac- 
tions. Just in proportion that metabolism is perverted by these 
contractions there is diminution of the capillaries, the most im- 
portant reparative force of the system. Those affected with 
pyorrhea always exhibit perverted circulation, metabolism and 
loss of cell dynamics. 

Treatment. — The treatment of pyorrhea consists of correct- 
ing the circulation and restoring absorption. This is accomplished 
by proscribing foods which exert mechanical influence on the 
cells through imperceptible irritation and reflex contractions. 
The proper care of the mouth is a necessary adjunct to this treat- 
ment. Immediately after each meal the teeth should be cleaned 

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254 DIET AND MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES 

with a brush and three sudsy applications of an antiseptic soap 
and cold water. The application of a tooth paste alone does not 
properly cleanse the mouth. Cold water toughens and protects 
the gums from colds and improves their circulation ; warm water 
invites colds and weakens absorption. 

To renew the capillaries and restore cell dynamics order 
magnesia sulphate baths twice a week, followed by dry-towel rub- 
bing every morning and prescribe : I£ Calcium fluoride 3x grains 
xx, specific medicine belladonna gtt. vii, distilled hamamelis 3i, 
aqua q. s. 3iv. M. Sig. : One dram every three hours. 



NERVOUSNESS 

It is said that the American people are becoming" a nation of 
nervous wrecks. The strenuous business life may be a contrib- 
uting factor of nervousness, but it is not the primary cause. 

While it is not difficult to convince the public that blended 
and denatured foods produce chemical starvation or deficiencies of 
the blood, many are hard to convince that these foods uncon- 
sciously irritate the nerves of the alimentary canal, unless they 
are severe enough to rupture vital parts. Natural foods that 
have not been blended or denatured, when eaten in reasonable 
amounts, are nonirritant, but many of their live-giving proper- 
ties are removed and irritant substances added. These are 
the foods that constitute the menu at hotels, restaurants, board- 
ing-houses, dining-cars, lunch counters, and predominate in the 
picnic baskets, workman's lunch, bakery, grocery and delicates- 
sen stores. 

The secondary effect of salt in the blood and on the nervous 
system is when its chlorine and hydrochloric acid is excessively 
liberated in the system and disproportions the acid and alkaline 
secretions. Every cell and tissue has an inner and an outer mem- 
brane, and in order to carry on assimilation and elimination these 
secretions must pass in and out of these membranes; but when 
disproportioned, this osmotic function is obstructed. Anything 
that interferes with a function, becomes an imperceptible irritant, 
and when repeated three times a day with such an irritant as 
salt hyperesthesia of the nervous system will be developed. 

It has been considered by reliable authority that two grams 
(30 grains) of salt are sufficient for the average person. This 
amount prepares the blood and secretions to perform the function 
of osmosis, but tables in this work show that the majority of 
people eat daily from 120 grains (^4 of an ounce) to 480 grains 
(1 ounce). The irritant effect of salt is exerted differently in 
persons. For instance, 50 to 75 grains daily frequently produce 
extreme nervousness in blonds, while some brunettes may tol- 
erate from 100 to 150 grains for years. The most wonderful 

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256 DIET AND MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES 

function of the system is its power to reproduce itself against 
abuse and almost continual irritation for years, but at last, through 
irritations and reflex actions, the nerves acquire an erethistic 
condition. 

There are many causes of nervousness : wrong living, finan- 
cial worry, family troubles, care of children, death of loved ones, 
and local disease, though most of these may be controlled by 
calm reflection. When one has unfortunately acquired the habi£ 
of eating too much salt and has become a nervous wreck, no 
climate, vacation, change of occupation, nervine, nerve quieter, 
sedative, stimulant or drug will bring relief until the taste and 
habit are curbed. 

When the excessive use of salt and other wrongs have in- 
duced enervation and perverted the circulation until the system 
is unable to resist irritation and repair itself, some local disease 
will then develop as a secondary cause of nervousness. 

Let me reimpress the nervous sufferer that salt, unconsciously 
to his sense of feeling, breaks the ratio of the acid and alkali 
secretions and through reflex irritations produces nervous 
erethism, a condition closely associated with mental aberration. 



INFANTILE ONANISM 

Thousands who do not know of the irritant effect on the 
urine from salt and other irritant foods believe that when nursing 
infants manipulate their genitals they have inherited sexual de- 
pravity. But why an inherited disposition to practise onanism 
from an itching irritation of the ^genitals than from an irritant 
itching of any part of the skin It is a wrong status. Do adoles- 
cents and adults inherit licentious dispositions when they relieve 
itching of the skin 

Mothers whose diet predominates with irritant foods sup- 
ply nursing infants with milk deficient in phosphoric acid, calcium, 
potassium and other elements, which is the cause of fermentation, 
colic and vomiting. 

The urine of infants thus nourished may irritate their geni- 
tals even when they have never tasted salt or irritant foods. 
Mothers can demonstrate this by diminishing the use of salt 
and salty foods, and eating acid fruits, which will restore the 
phosphoric acid and other elements to their milk and thus control 
fermentation, which causes hyperacidity of the urine that irri- 
tates the genitals of infants, and exerts an aphrodisiac effect on 
adolescents and adults. 

It is little wonder that the public loses confidence when emi- 
nent surgeons form associations for wrongfully educating peo- 
ple that unthinking nursing infants form habits of masturbation, 
not recognizing the true cause, an irritant urine. 



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CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS PRESSURES 

Thomas A. Edison states that "if you want to live a long 
time and work while you live, don't let anything pinch you any- 
where." He kicks off a loose shoe to show that pressure on any 
part of the body obstructs the capillaries, which deprives some part 
of nourishment. This is an excellent suggestion concerning exter- 
nal pressures but it has no comparison, as a sustainer of health,, 
with a knowledge of how to prevent internal pressures. It is not 
difficult to determine the injuries to the system by external pres- 
sures and their control ; while some internal ones are so concealed 
that their discovery and removal is uncertain. The secretions, 
cells and tissues, in a normal state, are always in motion, but 
an internal pressure may obstruct them and the circulation of 
some organ develop inflammation and cause its destruction or 
produced irritations which may exhaust the nervous system. In- 
ternal pressures are produced by imperceptible irritation and re- 
flex contractions. 

Alfred W. McCann contends that most illnesses result from 
denatured and demineralized foods. Removing part of the nutri- 
tion from a food does not necessarily make the balance an irri- 
tant. The writer claims that foods not denatured, but which 
are excessively preserved with irritant chemicals, produce the 
imperceptible irritations and reflex contractions or internal 
pressure. 

It has been proved that during the last four or five years most 
all large bakeries have blended their bread with a patent powder, 
the composition of which is Plaster Paris 24 parts, sodium chlorid 
24.90 parts, ammonia chlorid 11.50, starch 30 parts. Foods 
blended with irritants as this powder contains will cause internal 
pressures. 

What inconsistency, to say the least, our Government exhib- 
its by enacting a pure food law and then issuing a patent for a 
powder adulterating bread to the Ward Baking Co. of New York 
City. These internal impingements, contractions and pressures 
are the factors of cell atony and of most illnesses; this is sub- 
stantiated by investigators straining every nerve, not in search of 
causes but to evolve a serum that will restore cell activity. 

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FUNCTIONAL OBSTRUCTION 

Dalton's physiology states that a solution of sodium chlorid 
passes through animal membranes much less readily than pure 
water; i. e., if an animal membrane is stretched through the cen- 
ter of a cup with a salt solution on one side and pure water on 
the other, the sodium solution will, by osmosis, infiltrate the 
meshes and thus retard transudation. The excessive use of salt 
and other irritant foods then scientifically demonstrates how 
the acid and alkali secretions are retarded in arriving at organs 
where they take part in functional phenomena. 

In addition to retarding transudation of secretions, it inhib- 
its cell activity, produces muscular atony, and thus weakens con- 
tractile and expansive motion of fibrous and elastic tissues. 

The foregoing observations are confirmed by conditions, such 
as organic heart disease, hernias, prolapsus, floating or displaced 
organs, progressive paralysis and impotency. 



259 



THE CHEMICAL AGE 



With the increase of population in recent years, the de- 
mand for prepared foods has been so great that manufacturers 
have been compelled to blend the greater part of them. By- 
blending, the manufacturers have had to use various chemicals, 
for preserving their products, which have turned natural, or non- 
irritant nourishment, into irritant substances. In 1906 the Gov- 
ernment passed the Pure Food Bill, forbidding the use of a few- 
chemicals, as preservatives, which compelled the manufacturers 
to substitute salt, which requires from fifty to three hundred per 
cent more to protect their products even when kept in cold 
storage, than formerly. 

Antiseptics are chemicals which retard putrefaction — in con- 
tradistinction to preservatives — that is, the decomposition of ani- 
mal or vegetable bodies, with evolution of offensive odors. 
Chlorid of sodium has been considered an antiseptic, but as such 
it is too weak to prevent decomposition, and especially when 
compared or used in the same quantities with other true anti- 
septics. It requires such an enormous amount to prevent fer- 
mentation of foods that it necessarily becomes a preservative 
instead of an antiseptic. It is natural to believe, if salt is an 
antiseptic, that fermentation of ingesta would be retarded for 
hours, but never in the history of the world have all kinds of 
foods been incorporated with such enormous quantities of salt as 
at the present day. And people have never suffered so much 
from indigestion and fermentation. 

This is sustained by the fact that pharmacists all over the 
world are preparing vast varieties of antiseptics, which are pre- 
prescribed and bought for controlling fermentation and auto- 
toxemia. But antiseptics are prepared with irritant chemicals, 
and unfortunately one irritant will not control irritations produced 
by another. 

Hence, it is a poor philosophy to believe that chemical anti- 
septics will control perceptible and imperceptible irritations, 
caused by chemical reactions of foods. 

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CARE OF THE TEETH 

The teeth will not become chalky and decay if the nour- 
ishment be correct, and they are properly cleansed after each 
meal. The surface of the mouth is equal to the palm of the 
hand, which becomes greasy at every meal. Advocates of cleans- 
ing the teeth with antiseptic powders should oil the palm of 
their hand, and then attempt to free it of grease with brush 
and tooth-powders. They will learn by this demonstration how 
unremoved greasy substances in the mouth form acid, which com- 
bine with the alkaline saliva, producing tartar and decay. 

Hot drinks make the nerves sensitive to cold and invite 
teeth-ache. The teeth and mouth surfaces can be kept free from 
tartar acid-forming only by cleansing with a fragrant antiseptic 
soap and cold water immediately after meals. Soap is an anti- 
septic and which is absolutely necessary for removing greasy 
particles from the teeth, gums and surfaces of the mouth. Cleans- 
ing with cold water prevents colds from causing teeth-ache, and 
which overcomes hot drink sensitiveness. Pyorrhea is an in- 
flammation of the gums, which become infected, but the writer 
has never seen a case of it develop with those who cleanse the 
mouth with soap and cold water. 

The habit of cleansing the in and out-side of the mouth, 
with soap and cold water, is so protective and refreshing that 
when practiced for a few months, will never be dropped by any- 
one who desires a sweet breath. 



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TEETHING CHILDREN 

In teething children, or during the cutting of the wisdom 
teeth, it is unnecessary to operate on the gums. Only those who 
have suffered when cutting wisdom teeth have any idea what 
babies endure while teething. 

Plantago Major is a well-known herb, growing by the road- 
side and flowering from May to October. Its leaves are long, 
slim and similar to beet leaves, but much paler and have a reed- 
like stem, in the fall from six to fifteen inches long. Its proper- 
ties and uses are alterative, diuretic, antiseptic and anodyne. 
There is scarcely another plant that exerts the anodyne influence 
like plantago, when administered in minute doses, internally for 
aching teeth, or locally applied to relieve painful wisdom gums, 
or of teething children. 

Lloyd's specific medicines, Merrell's normal tinctures, pre- 
pared from the green root and the juice squeezed from the leaves, 
when applied to the gums give prompt relief. 



262 



MERCURY AS A MEDICINE 

How natural it is to criticise faulty teaching in our public 
schools and colleges! But should we not as quickly condemn 
those who would use the American Government to assist in the 
education of the people through dangerous and injurious in- 
struction ? The Regular School of Medicine hopes to be recognized 
by the American Government as its medical authority, as are 
Church and State in some European countries, so that it may 
enforce its injurious and obsolete system of therapeutics. 

Mercury — one of the remedies of the Regular School — is not 
a constituent of the human body, but it has been used as an 
alterative for ages. The modus operandi of alteratives is 
involved in much obscurity, but is supposed to alter, modify 
or change the functions of certain organs. Many conditions re- 
spond to its temporary and palliative effect, but it cannot be proved 
that it ever cured a disease without leaving a permanent after 
effect. 

Bichloride of mercury or corrosive sublimate (poison) con- 
sists of one equivalent each of mercury and chlorine. 

Calomel, a preparation of mercury, consists of two equiva- 
lents of mercury and one of chlorine. When taking calomel, the 
food frequently predominates with acids, which supply another 
equivalent of chlorine and change it into corrosive sublimate. 
Advocates of mercury maintain that, if properly given, it is 
harmless, but what is to be said of the thousands of people whom 
we find seriously affected by it for a lifetime? 

Physicians may not be aware that enough chlorine or hydro- 
chloric acid may be liberated in the system from the excessive 
use of sodium chloride, or salt, to reduce the alkalinity of the 
blood so as to supply another equivalent of chlorine, which 
changes calomel into bichloride of mercury. 

The nourishment of every family is determined more or less 
by routine habit ; if the foods predominate in acid or alkalis, and 
especially the former, the taking of calomel is liable to produce 
any of several degrees of salivation. It is a known fact that 
whenever mercury in any form enters the system it is never all 

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264 DIET AND MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES 

eliminated. The foods may be so used as to produce hyper- 
acidity or hyperalkalinity of the blood and secretions — condi- 
tions which are incompatible with mercury. In fact, the blood 
and secretions are continuously fluctuating to these extreme con- 
ditions. Think then, how seriously the health may be injured 
for life by the deposits of mercury in the bones, and every part 
of the system, though more especially in the ailmentary tract, 
where it is ever ready to set up irritation and reflex contractions, 
whenver acid fruits are eaten. Many of the serums which are 
being injected into the system as routine medication for every 
conceivable disease, contain mercury in some form. Whenever 
a physician is about to prescribe mercury, remember that your 
blood may be in a state of hyperacidity or hyperalkalinity, and 
that mercurial deposits may affect your whole life. 

Mercurial Deposits. — A demonstration of how mercurial de- 
posits take place in the system can be observed by the following 
incident: During the Eighteen Nineties, in a Chicago medical 
college, a tibial bone of a skeleton happened to be in the lecture- 
room; a professor picked it up and rapped on a table, using it 
as a gavel. One of the students cried out with astonishment, 
calling the attention of the entire class to the mecurial particles 
that had rattled from the bone. There being some doubt, the 
table was cleared, and the rapping with the bone was repeated, 
with the reappearance of the mercurial particles. 

Every practitioner who gives calomel, or mercury, in any 
form believes he is able to administer it without injury; but 
the fact remains that when it once enters the system, it is never 
entirely eliminated, and through retention forms deposits. Will 
anyone tell us, when vaccine serums 1 enter the system, what 
amount of knowledge is necessary to prevent their working 
through the blood and leaving their baneful influence for life ? 

Eclectics and Homeopaths who give mercury cannot claim 
a superior practice to the Regulars. 



Index 

Page 
Abortion — 

An injury 87 

Antiquated method for Inducing 86 

Artificial Production of 88 

At Four Weeks 74 

At Four Weeks, Treatment of , 74 

At Six Weeks , 76 

Advantages of Six Weeks 77 

At Six Weeks, Treatment of 77 

At Eight Weeks, , 78 

At Eight Weeks, Treatment of 79, 80 

At Ten Weeks 81 

At Ten Weeks, Treatment of • 83, 84 

At Twelve Weeks 86 

At Twelve Weeks. Treatment of 91, 92 

Authorities Wrong on , 68 

Conditions Produced by 67 

Coitus, Cause of > 69 

Danger of Inducing 72 

Differential Ideas of 73 

Disease, Cause of 70 

Dead Foetus at Ten Weeks 83 

Treatment of 83 

Harmless Method of Inducing 72 

Hemorrhage from 79, 82 

Indication for Justifiable 70 

Inhalations of Dioxid Gas, Cause of . . . .i , 76 

Insanity resulting from 67 

Mortality from 68 

Paint Inhalations, Cause of 76 

Secondary Effects from Five and Six Weeks of 70 

Successful Termination of 71 

Semi-monthly Management of .... , 72 

Subinvolution, Result from 67 

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266 INDEX — Continued 

Page 

Spontaneous , 81 

Recent Criminal Methods of — 87 

Methods of Inducing. 71 

Violent convulsions, Cause of i 89 

Acidimeter — 

Methods for Using of 159 

Advantages of the 160 

Acid Producing Foods 163 

Adolescent Age 127 

Alkali Producing Foods 166 

Americans Nervous Wrecks 174 

Artificial Electricity— 

False Ideas of 203 

Controls Inaccessible Impinged Nerves 203 

Wry Neck Overcome by 203* 

Nymphomania Controlled bv , 203 

Blood— 

Dr. Schuesler Discovered Deficiencies of 154 

Bronchitis — 

Author made a Discovery 208 

Physical Exercise, Control of 208 

Medicinal Treatment of 209 

Broncho-Pneumonia — 

Inflammation, Cause of i 244 

Mortality from Different Treatments 244 

Cancer of the Face — 

Treatment of .233. 234 

Cancer of the Rectum — 

Medicinal Treatment of * 219 

Local Treatment of 220 

Cancer of the Uterus — ■ 

Is Absorbable <...... 63 

Diagnosis of 63 

General Conditions of ■ 63 

Treatment of 64 

Case two 65 

Treatment of 65, 66 

Canned Vegetables — 

Prolong Chemical Reactions 185 

Capacity of the Bowels 221 

Care of the Teeth 261 

Capillary Circulation — 

Cause of Deficiency of 96 

Treatment to Increase the 98 



INDEX — Continued 267 

Page 

Cholera Infantum — 

How Developed 199 

Treatment of ,. 199 

Complexion — 

Treatment of 222 

Clot on the Brain — 

Hemiplegia not often Caused by 214 

Treatment of , 215 

Chemical Age 260 

Chemical Attraction — 

Fats Destroyed bv .228 

Control of *. '. 229 

Treatment of 230 

Conscious pressure — 

By Thomas A. Edison 258 

Internal Pressure Worse 258 

Carbons — 

Effect of 180 

Crevix — 

Laceration of 24 

Different forms of , , 24 

Dr. T. A. Emmet Says , 24 

Operations of 24 

Constitutional Effects Prevented 26 

Results of Uterine Medication 26 

Coffee — 

An aphrodisiac , 178 

Sympathetic Affected by 178 

Terminal nerves Impinged by 178 

Conception — 

Functions During 69 

Contributions to Pathology — 

By Dr. Geo. Star White 172 

By Dr. E. H. Pratt 172 

By Dr. J. M. Scudder 172 

By Pathologic Food Markings 172 

Dandruff — 

Cause of 134 

Prevention of 134 

Dementia Praecox — 

Two Irritation Focuses , , 194 

Another Mysterious Problem 195 

Treatment of i 195 



268 INDEX — Continued 

Page 

Dead Foetus — 

Retention of 100 

Treatment for the Removal of , 100 

Diphtheretic — 

Treatment of 250 

Displacement of the Uterus — 

Classification of , 35 

Diagnosis of 35 

Symptoms Arising from 35 

Physical signs of 36 

Treatment of .36, 37, 38, 39 

Mechanical Treatment of 38, 39 

Directions for Washing out the Uterus 11, 12, 13 

Dsymenorrhea — 

Classification of 40 

Catarrhal Form of 40 

Treatment of 39 

Elasticity of Tissues 140 

Endometritis, Corporeal < 47 

Etiology of 47 

Causes Growths when Neglected 47 

Treatment of Corporeal 48 

Catarrhal 49 

Treatment of 49 

Enuresis — 

Treatment of 250 

A Child Affected with .152 

Enzymes — 

Wm. D. Bayliss on , 97 

Eczema — 

Irritant Blood Cause of 247 

Treatment of , 247 

Fecundation — 

Definition of 69 

Location of 69 

Mode of 69 

Foreword of Uterine Treatment i 7 

Food Marks the Character of Man 145 

Functional Obstruction — 

Salt Cause of 250 

Gangrene of the Feet — 

Treatment of , 210 

Prevention of 211 



INDEX — Continued 269 

Page 

Granular Sugar — 

Properties of 175 

Gonorrhea — 

Contagious Nature of 51 

Scientific Manual of 51 

Clinical Observations of 51 

Treatment of acute 114 

Treatment of Chronic 115 

Gynecologic Diseases — 

Primary Causes of 112 

Treatment of 114 

Local Treatment of 115 

Hardening of the Arteries — 

Treatment of 132 

Hemophilia — 

Cause of 238 

Treatment of 238 

Hemorrhage — 

Difficult to Control 116 

From Cancer , 117 

Treatment of = 117 

Hemospasia — 

Method of Dry Cupping 223 

Human Electricity — 

Dr. Wm. H. Fitzgerald's Zone Therapy 200 

Vital Energy of Life 200 

Utilization of 201 

For Increasing Oxidation 201 

Insomnia Overcome by 201 

Importance of the Capillaries — 

Absence of the capilalries 118 

Marks the Body 188 

Imperceptible Irritation — 

Conditions Produced by 245 

Treatment of , 245 

Impregnation — 

Mode of 69 

Inefficiency of the Wassermann Reaction i 170 

Infantile Onanism — 

Irritation Cause of , ,. . 157 

Influence of the Skin on Digestion — 

Reciprocal Influence of . . , 186 

Orificial Surgeon's Instructions for refilling the Capil- 
laries 186 

Treatment for refilling the Capillaries 187 



270 INDEX — Continued 

Page 

Inflammation — 

Paracelsus First Described 154 

Controlled by Uterine Medication 103 

Instruments 14, 15 

Intra-Uterine Medication — 

Is it an Expedient for Diagnosing Uterine Diseases 102 

Irritant Urine 135 

Irritation and Cell Ptosis 188 

Advantages of Food Marking Knowledge 188 

Treatment to Overcome 189 

Lead Poisoning — 

Why some are Affected by 248 

Treatment of i 249 

Lack of Food Marking Knowledge Makes Medical Nihilists, 173 

Laceration of the Cervix — 

Different forms of 24 

Dr. T. Addis Emmet Says. .... ...; 24 

Failure to Examine after Parturition 26 

Constitutional Effects Prevented 26 

Operations of i 26 

Result of Uterine Medication 26 

Lochia — 

Suppression of , . . . 24, 105 

Restoration of , 27 

Lacteal Secretion Restored. , 27 

Lloyd, John Uri, Classifies Sodium Chlorid and Sugar as 

Colloids 97 

Life Wire by Dr. E. H. Pratt , 155 

Lymph adenitis — 

Enlargement of Glands 251 

Treatment of 251 

Meat and its Products — 

Many ills Due to Animal Products \ 181 

Contains too much Urea 181 

Properties of Soups and Urine. ., 181 

An Injury to the Vision i 182 

McCann, Alfred W., on Colloids 97 

Medicated Solutions — 

Formula for Preparing 16, 17 

Strength of Solutions 18, 19 

Menopause — 

Physiologic Definition of i 43, 110 

Pathologic Definition of 43 

Treatment of 43 

Diseases Following the 110 



INDEX — Continued 271 

Page 

Menorrhagia — 

Etiology of 41 

Factors of 41 

Treatment of 41, 42 

Mercury as a Medicine — 

Bichlorid of 263 

Calomel Preparations of 263 

Deposits by 264 

Metritis — 

Etiology of 22 

General Symptoms of 22 

Treatment of 23 

Metrorrhagia — ^ 

Cause of 116 

Treatment of 116 

Mvsteries of Disease — 

Treatment of 224, 225 

Nervousness — 

Salt, the Cause of 255 

Weakness and Irritation, Cause of 197 

Not Inherited 197 

Treatment of 198 

Nervous Wrecks 174 

Neuralgia — 

Cause of . .\ 241 

Treatment of 242 

Nymphomania — 

Cause of 144 

Treatment for Controlling. 144 

No Importance to Old Classification of Foods 150 

Nourishment — 

Effect of Wrong Combination of 177 

The Author does not Expect to Change the Customs of 

Healthy Persons 177 

Odorless Perspiration — 

From Lack of Fats 106 

Treatment of 106 

Obstetrical Practice — 

Incidents of 105 

Emergencies Overcome by Uterine Medication ...105 

Opinion of a Pharmacist — 

It is quite True 226 

Osmosis — 

Obstructed 259 



272 INDEX— Continued 

Page 

Pathologic Food Markers — 

Food Tables 130 

Perceptible Irritation — 

Diseases Produced by 245 

Periodicity — ; 

Recognized as Fatigue 205 

Symptoms Arising from , 205 

Most People are Affected with 206 

Treatment of 206, 207 

Perverted Osmosis — 

Cause of 237 

Pregnancy — 

Women Die from Vomiting. 71 

Pickled Meat and Vegetables — 

Their Fibers Toughened by 183 

Cause Ulceration and Cancers 183 

Phlegmasia Alba Dolens — 

Various Opinions of 56 

Author's Observations of 57 

The Blood, Cause of 58 

Treatment of , 59, 60, 61 

Swabbing the Uterus for. . . 59 

Internal Medication of J . 60 

Procidentia — 

Overcome by Uterine Medication. 117 

Proportioning of Secretions — 

Oxidization of Foods ,. . 162 

Prostato-Cystitis — 

Characterized by Inflammation 190 

False Idea of Treatments of 190 

Obstacles when Treating 190 

Serious Aggravations of 190 

Cold Aggravates 192 

Treatment for Chronic 191 

Advantages of Maintaining Acidity of the Urine Day 

and Night 193 

Influence of Olive Oil on 193 

Ptosis — 

Cause of 133 

Puerperal Fever — 

Treatment of .30, 31 

Pyorrhea — 

Inflammation, Cause of 253 

Treatment of = . .». .253, 254 



INDEX — Continued 273 

Page 

Rectal Diseases — 

Cause of 239 

Treatment of 240 

Rheumatism or Broken Arches — 

Two Etiologic Factors of 235 

Treatment of 235 

Resources of Uterine Medication — 

Compared with Surgery 20 

Retroversion of the Uterus — 

Etiology of 32 

Treatment of 33 

Local Treatment of ^ 33 

To Elevate the Uterus without pain. 33 

Packs for Overcoming 34 

Retention of Dead Foetus — 

Treatment for its Removal 100 

Salty Meat and Fish — 

Prolong Chemical Reaction 184 

Red Blood Corpuscles Destroyed by 184 

Breaks the Ratio of the Secretions. 184 

As a Refrigerant 139 

^vs a Stimulant 141 

Percentage in Foods of 130, 139 

Sciatica — 

From Uterine Infection 53 

Etiology of 53 

Mechanical Cause of 53 

Peculiarity of 54 

Treatment of , 54 

Special Indications by Dr. J. M. Scudder 154 

Sterility — 

Caused by lack of Development 107 

Endometritis, Cause of 107 

Diseased Aqueducts, Cause of 107 

Sodom and Gomorrah — 

Sugar, Granular — 

Properties of 175 

Destruction of . ' 144 

Substitution of Bacteriology 236 

Syphilis — 

Treponema Pallidum, Cause of 62 

Treatment of 62 



274 INDEX — Continued 

Page 

Sudden Deaths from Paralytic Shocks — 

Reflex Irritation, Cause of 212 

Treatment of 212, 213 

Teething Children — 

Treatment of 262 

Varicosis — 

Conditions Caused by 231 

Treatment of 231, 232 



